I have been reading some blogposts about how students spam various profs for internship. It must be annoying, but I think the fault does not lie with the students.
If the various professors saw the kind of schools and colleges they go to, they would not be surprised at all.
Science is taught as if it is a collection of facts, equations formulae and diagrams. If you get these right, you are a scientist.
Ever since the NAAC made research one of the criteria for getting a good report, all colleges want their teaching staff to "do research".
With no access to literature, current contents , reviews, many lecturers "do research". Their promotion depends on it. They also "do" PhD in the same fashion. One day they register, then suddenly, they submit and get their degree. They are in the college the whole day, never stay back in the evenings, may be do a couple of weeks of bench work in the vacation, and voila! they get their PhD.
So why are you surprised if students from such colleges want to "do" research for two weeks?
1 comment:
Absolutely brilliant post. And I know how much disgusting it is
You were spot on when you talked about the state of research.
The sorry state of research and academics in lesser known / peripheral universities are unbearable. Its more of exploitation than guidance.
We have been taught about the concepts of ‘unbiased research’ since our statistics classes in class 12, and suddenly everything seems like a fictitious by the time you start doing research.
I Left my PHD and came to Delhi. Been working in Social research for 2 years.
Working in social research organisation is a sin in itself when you see all the wrong strategies are flying across you, you sit frail with your head down, trying to make you report glossy and shinny or else you don’t have a job at all.
It is fashionable to scold the government but Indian Academia /Research is a boneless waist
Poverty sells,and we shine in the name of development
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