Indonesia, April 28 -- Higher education has often been slow to respond to these needs, prompting industries to develop their own training programs,

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Arif Satria emphasized that the plan to close study programs deemed irrelevant to industry needs must be accompanied by curriculum transformation.

"The skills we teach students today, when they enter university, may only remain about 60 percent relevant five years later. That means by the time they graduate, much of their knowledge is no longer applicable," he said here on Tuesday.

He warned that without reforming higher education curricula, students will struggle to adapt to evolving industrial and workplace dema...