China overtakes India in PhDs too
29 Jun 2009, 0536 hrs IST, Seethalakshmi S, TNN
BANGALORE: It’s not just agriculture, even in doctoral degrees (PhDs), China seems to have overtaken India. Even as the debate rages over Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal’s reforms in school and university education, the National Knowledge Commission has asked the HRD ministry to go in for an immediate revamp in the way universities go about awarding PhDs.
Their fear is not unfounded. The growth in the number of doctorates in India is a mere 20% as compared to 85% in China! Worse, not more than 1% of students who complete their under-graduate degrees opt for doctoral studies in India. The NKC’s survey across India has thrown up these facts at a time when our research laboratories are crying for well-trained young doctorates.
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