
Dr. Kshatresh Dutta Dubey
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Dr. Kshatresh Dutta Dubey
@kshatresh
Computational Chemist/Biologist Academic Editor: PLOS One, In silico enzyme designing & mechanism, Electric field in Catalysis, A dad. Tweets are my own views.












What NIRF and QS/THE rankings have done to Indian Education is similar to what entrance exams and coaching institutions have done to learning to students and the schooling system. Students in coaching institutions are more focused on scores, numbers, and cracking the entrance exam. They are focused on rote learning, practising only important questions, and chapters. They are also told to leave a part of the syllabus as ‘choice’ questions. They know what to study and what to ignore and leave it in choice. Similarly, Indian Universities now excessively focus on quantity of research, faculty etc. Good researchers now work to show numbers. They no longer are bothered about cutting edge research, quality and impactful research, commercializing patents etc. The way students are taught to crack an exam, score the most and be the topper is what annual institutional rankings(also leading to business benefits) have done to the entire education.










