Science Of Decay

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Science Of Decay
  • 78 per cent of the supervisors felt hardly any thesis made any intellectual contribution
  • 60 per cent thought that most of them were repetitive studies of phenomena by known methods
  • 30 per cent of theses were considered good
  • 40 per cent of scholars report favouritism on the basis of domicile, caste or religion
  • Almost 35 per cent of the scholars do not spend the full working hours of a day on research. 30 to 40 per cent of supervisors didn't give adequate time to the scholars
  • Nearly 70 per cent of supervisors work in isolation, not interacting with researchers doing similar work in other institutions
  • Of the 3,000 theses approved every year, about 700 are of fairly good quality which could be of interest to user agencies
  • Applied research, which accounts for 80 per cent of theses, is often trivial, mediocre and without any intellectual input
  • 30 per cent of PhD scholars drop out. This results in the loss of almost one-third of the total scientific research spent by an institution.
  • More than 20 per cent of the scholars take a long time to complete the research, thus further eating into the research budget
  • Almost 99 per cent of the scientists were found to be politically very naive, even reluctant to see the connection between politics, economics and science

    (Source: CSIR-sponsored sample study of 9,000 PhD theses by Rais Ahmed, a former director & Madhulika Rakesh, researcher)

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