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Sir, You have started a great
Submitted by Richa (not verified) on Sun, 2011-02-06 11:07.
Sir, You have started a great discussion. I think there are lot of confusions in everyone's mind, be it students or the system itself !
1- Do our students choose the area of their interest or they select the area in which they can earn the best at the first place?
2- what our system exactly need a scientist or a salesman ? What are the criteria that funding bodies follow to issue money? How many grants they really
issued to the projects that do not have "direct" implications !
I think we need to mix the basic and applied science together and follow a uniform syllabus till MSc in all the universities..
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Richa, I agree that a lot of
Submitted by Subhash Lakhotia (not verified) on Sun, 2011-02-06 20:28.
Richa, I agree that a lot of confusion exists on every side. However, when opting for an academic career, one's own liking has to be as the top
consideration while for commercial (earning) jobs, the market forces take the priority although even in this case the liking and capabilities of the
individual have important roles.
India needs both scientists/teachers as well as enterpneurs (not only "salespersons") and the system should encourage and facilitate both.
As far as I know, the Indian funding agencies do not really discriminate between basic and "applied" sciences, although each funding agency would
have its priority areas. I could continue to be funded for my work on non-coding RNA even in 1980s and 1990s when this field was not "fashionable",
rather in those years such genes were typically branded as "junk". I think this is a great strength of the Indian fuding system.
I am not in favour of "uniform" syllabi at any level - for basic science disciplines, there should be comparale levels of courses (theory as well as lab)
with local variations keeping in view the expertise and facilties available.
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Ideally, joining a higher
Submitted by Subhash Lakhotia (not verified) on Sat, 2011-02-05 12:25.
Ideally, joining a higher education programme should be query/interest driven. But we do not live in "ideal world" and the market forces in recent decades
have obviously taken over the choices. The rush by institutions for opening and by the students for joining the Biotechnology (and the various subcloned
disciplines) that has swept the country is a startling example of the market forces. In most cases, there is neither query nor academic interest behind this
rush. I believe that those who wish to be in academia out of interest, should really try to get a holistic understanding, even if it has to be done on one's own
efforts because the class-rooms do not provide this! This situation, however unfortunate as it is, is the fact of the present situation. Therefore, the future
"biologists" should be well aware of this so that not only they turn out to be better placed in their academic pursuits but can also be catalysts in bringing
about the much desired changes in teaching and learning of biology.
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What makes a student to
Submitted by Subhash Rajpurohit (not verified) on Sat, 2011-02-05 05:38.
What makes a student to decide for a master’s program once he/she is done with a bachelor’s degree program? Is it a query driven phenomenon or
market driven activity? For example joining biotechnology programs in mass rather than looking towards classical subjects like zoology. This situation
further complicates when one is done with his master’s program and planning to join a Ph.D. program. The system in which I was trained (at bachelors or
masters level) rarely one gets chance to hear about exploratory approaches particularly when moving from one level to other levels of education (i.e.
understanding).
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