Empowering students with skills for the future job market is the need of the hour . Image Credit: Shutterstock The exponential pace of change induced by the transition into the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) creates a grand challenge for schools and universities. Earlier, education reforms used to cater for the long-term needs of a slowly changing market. This is, however, no longer the case. Significant technological developments in quantum computing have been achieved in 2019, with the successful design of Sycamore, a computer that is billion times more powerful than Summit by IBM, the fastest supercomputer in the world. Last year, China announced the successful design of its own quantum computer, which is again billion times more powerful than Sycamore. This sets the pace of the race that we are witnessing today. The world is changing at a dizzying speed. The promise is huge, the risk as well.