There is no doubt that some places in India have done phenomenal
work while excelling in teaching. But the issue is how to build
institutional cultures where good work can happen and the next
generation can take it from there. I suspect that you can for
instance, pick out a few institutions in the world doing good quality
work today and predict that 20 years from now say 50 Nobel prizes will
go to 50 of those people, wherever they are. You cannot say who would
be the individuals, but it would be safe to predict that they will be
among the people from those institutions. I doubt if any of those
institutions will be in India. Though there will be some Indians and
some of them are likely to be at those institutions. You think this
thought experiment is right? I think geniuses are not born they are
made. We should not be talking about world-class institutions
loosely without considering such issues.
Good wishes,
SB
Quoting dhiraj goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Baruah,
>
> You have rightly pointed out that recruiting and retaining good
> faculties is a big issue for academic institution. Even cities like
> Kanpur in India are having problem. Recently we had a meeting with a
> dean from IIT Kanpur while was visiting west coast. He was telling
> IIT Kanpur has recently lost a good number of very well known
> faculties (some of whom taught me while I was a undergrad student)
> due to lack of good colleges in the city. This became a major issue
> once their children started going to college. I am sure similar
> problem exists for places like Guwahati and Bhubaneswar.
>
> Separation of teaching from research is needed in some institutions
> to train the regular work force. It would be unrealistic to assume
> that everyone has to do research. Having said that, places like IIT
> Kanpur, IIT Mumbai, IISc etc. are doing phenomenal job while
> excelling in teaching. Some of the work in theoretical
> communication, algorithms, atmospheric science in early 90’s from
> these institutions are world class and have made a huge impact. So I
> will not generalize it.
>
> Regards,Dhiraj
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