Mr. Author, just try to know what PhD is and then start writing such articles.......do not just fool around with your foolish ideas, please..........there is this nearly half of India's younger generation doing or planning do this "PhD", in whatever field it is.........!!!
You are already old now and dont have anything to do, so is this article and how dare rediff publishes articles like this???
Just advice our Indian University Professors and Chancellor's to review the Master's syllabus once and then come and talk here!!!!!!!!! In some of our Universities, even now Prof's teach the same old 1970's syllabus!!! Since their appointment as University Professor's they have the same syllabus untill they retire..........what a dedicated system we have!!! now these two gentlemen are advicing to have an expiry date for PhD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PhD is not exams. It is a journey and is somewhat kind of developing an atitude. One of the reasons i think ram gopal agarwal became a former world bank employee is because of his such stupid ideas.
RE:Why only PhD
by Manu on Jan 18, 2008 10:55 PM Permalink
dont tell me Ph.D. take lot efforts... at least not in everycase... i have a few examples who did it with lot's of manipulation and also some examples where she got published as many as 15 papers in international journals because her guide was very "HAPPY and Satified" with her..
A Ph.D degree or any other degree holder is expected to keep up the standard or dignity attached to the degree as long as he lives with that.If one's work is not deserving for Ph.D degree you can report the matter to the Univeristy prefereably duringor before his defence. The Unversity shall assess it and if agrees with you, will ask him to study more and resubmit it. Oreintation course areacceptable for all whether a Ph.D orNon Ph.D in the respective functionalareas.It is always possible that one,s Professional area of work is different from his Ph.D work. hence they may require external training or to put hard self effort to understand the job activity by themselves.That doesnot mean that Ph.D holdershall stoop downhis quality of output or stipulate a lower standard for others or in his organization. He will definitely know the requirements and as experience goes he will be a better person to evaluate the standard of work in his office than a non Ph.D. According to you a practising C.A, Lawyer, Doctor all need an expiry of their degree!.It is too funny and speaks your poor understanding. However, nobody shallobject to orientation coursese or attending seminars. In factaPh.D person willbe ableto organize it more efficiently than a non Ph.D.
You canotget a Ph.D by attending 100 oreitantion courses or passing a 100 exam papers. You have to be a self learned scholar in the subject with proof of a discovery presented in a way that would be carefully supervised by a Guide.
Do u know how to get that degree. We are strugling lot to get the degree. He simply advised to change the system. Does he insist to follow the same procedure?
i dont know what you guys do in economics or some other subjects as i have done my ph.d. in biotechnology and have put 5 years of hard work regularly for doing it............ we sometime need to work 48 hrs continuously......... i have learned many more thing then just getting a degree.......... we cant do our ph.d. part time....... i have international publications also........ i have done my ph.d in india only....... after all these years of hardwork, frustration (when experiments fail), patience what i am hearing is that this should have expiry date....... see if i ll work then it ll be valued and if i dont work then still have spent my best years of youth in doing phd...... so it should not expire........ if i take a ten years gap after that and dont work then nobody ll give me job on the basis of my my phd but i ll still be a doctor of philosophy no matter what i do.............
RE:you must be joking................
by Sharukh khan on Jan 18, 2008 09:43 PM Permalink
dont worry hez only talking abt economics, no one can do a second science PhD in one life, so one is good enough throughout.
RE:you must be joking................
by Atul Thakur on Jan 18, 2008 09:50 PM Permalink
and one more thing if a phd is working regularly after the degree then you can have 'n' numbers of exams after its expiry date ...... he ll still pass those exams ....... but if you put same criteria for all the degrees or administrative posts or anything else then most of them ll be on road.......... and dear sir u have humiliated me and all the phds by starting this discussion .............. and sorry to ask but are you qualified enough to raise this question....... please let me know
