tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post6958425289256471973..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Pakistan's reform experiments in higher edAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-7511955350183301632009-10-29T10:54:12.633+05:302009-10-29T10:54:12.633+05:30Prev post : Good one ..... did you check if the ot...Prev post : Good one ..... did you check if the other faculty satisfy the criterion ? Exceptions do not make a rule, however your point is well taken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-67562105547960268702009-10-28T16:56:45.043+05:302009-10-28T16:56:45.043+05:30India is eager to emulate Pak. No body
talks of sc...India is eager to emulate Pak. No body<br />talks of scientific contributions any longer but about scientific output, as if<br />doing research in S&T is producing steel. Even in the elite CFTIs of India (ie IIT/IISc/IIM/IISER/NITIE) the system is sliding towards talking about quantity of papers, imnpact factor, h,g and other alphanumerical indices. But not one promotion/selection/recruitment/review/evaluation committee asks: What problems have you been working on? Why are they hard problems/How are they useful in Indian context? What unique progress have you made ? and then ask for publication record to back up the tall claims...<br />It may be mentioned that many databases agree that among the Nobel awardees this year the Indian origin chemist has an pre-Nobel h-index of 12 and<br />a physics awardee has that of 9.<br />Now look at this faculty recruitment pitch on the IIT Delhi webpage for its Bio-science school:<br />http://web.iitd.ac.in/~bioschool/faculty.htm<br />Obviously the Indian origin Chemistry Nobel Laureate for 2009 would not make it to the Professor rank since he does not have the required h-index.<br />Now look at the profile of the co-ordinator of this bioscience school:<br />...I do not think progress in chemistry/biochemistry/bio or chemo informatics in India or in this world would suffer in any way if all his papers were retracted tomorrow and if he was retired from the CFTI system with a golden handshake at the same time,<br />The fallacy of all these output measurements is in assuming that science and technology is research countable when it actually is not!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-13479070687814141642009-10-27T23:09:27.824+05:302009-10-27T23:09:27.824+05:30Well, well ... Two totally opposite views. The tru...Well, well ... Two totally opposite views. The truth, no doubt lies somewhere in between.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com