Wednesday 18 April 2018

April 17th op-ed in the Hindu has two articles. One  about the HERC and another about research in medical colleges.

First the article about mandatory research by doctors working in medical colleges. As I have said many times,teaching full time and in this case, also treating patients or performing surgery, leaves very little time for research. One cannot conduct research in 15 minutes break between patients or classes.
What should be mandatory is that teachers must keep abreast of the latest research in their field. Maybe every teaching institution can have an in house publication that prints monthly research reviews authored by faculty. A brief summary of what has happened in a particular field in the last few months.
As far as the HERC goes, it's much of the same old, same old.
Only one suggestion I found interesting is that colleges can be associated with research labs. This would ensure that both students and faculty got some insight into the recent advances in their field of interest without having to publish.
 This mandatory publication requirement has led to substandard research in huge volume.

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