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DST INSPIRE Fellowships to 1st Rankers for PhD Program

Submitted by penugonda on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 09:34

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi – 110 016. Website: www.inspire-dst.gov.in
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INSPIRE FELLOWSHIPS

FELLOWSHIPS TO FIRST RANK HOLDERS FOR PURSUING DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

 

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The disposable academic(Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time):Article published In THE ECONOMIST

Submitted by penugonda on Sun, 01/23/2011 - 19:23

ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral thesis is both an idea and an account of a period of original research. Writing one is the aim of the hundreds of thousands of students who embark on a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) every year.