India, March 22 -- Vineet Joshi, secretary of the department of higher education, union ministry emphasised on updating academic curricula to stay in step with technological changes globally for institutions imparting higher education under National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, while speaking at the Bharat Innovates Deep-Tech Pre-Summit held at IIT Bombay, on Saturday.

"While earlier, the education system focused mainly on rote learning, exams and securing jobs, the new (NEP) policy aims to make education more meaningful and aligned with real-world needs," said Joshi. He stressed that going forward institutions must work towards producing job creators instead of job seekers. Joshi also indicated that in future, the way universities are e...