JAMMU, Dec. 28 -- Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday spoke about the imperative of shifting from outdated, rote learning system to more modern and skill-based learning approaches to meet the demands of an evolving world.

"Our endeavour should be reduction in curriculum load and development of adaptable skills for future jobs. Even if a single student of any higher education institution is unemployed or not setting up his or her enterprise, then it clearly means that the educational institution and its teachers have not done their work honestly," he told a gathering of students at the 11th convocation of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University.

Sinha called upon the students to create new paths in life, give new direction to life, exp...