Ageism is a serious problem for Indian academia.
Several issues in policy are daunting the progress of Indian academia as mentioned :
1. "Many academic institutions have no guidelines on the role, involvement and career development of academic fellows."
2. "Many academics fail to understand the role and potential of fellows like me and often consider them just as an extended postdoc — not as a long-term prospect or potential collaborator. Hence, I did not get enough of an opportunity to teach and to mentor PhD students."
3. surely some vogus and callous advices are there without judging the nature of research: "for improving my faculty application and to enhance my chances of a secure job — this was to publish my current research: i) without foreign authors; and ii) as senior or first author in more prestigious journals such as Science, Nature or PNAS. Whilst the first is possible, the second is easier said than done."
&&& "collecting and publishing groundbreaking ecology data in top journals can take years longer than other disciplines".
4. and the most serious problem "The journals I have been publishing in are not familiar to some of the members of recruitment panels I’ve met with. I have even been asked if ‘Ibis’ and ‘Parasites & Vectors’ were proper journals."
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Several issues in policy are daunting the progress of Indian academia as mentioned :
1. "Many academic institutions have no guidelines on the role, involvement and career development of academic fellows."
2. "Many academics fail to understand the role and potential of fellows like me and often consider them just as an extended postdoc — not as a long-term prospect or potential collaborator. Hence, I did not get enough of an opportunity to teach and to mentor PhD students."
3. surely some vogus and callous advices are there without judging the nature of research: "for improving my faculty application and to enhance my chances of a secure job — this was to publish my current research: i) without foreign authors; and ii) as senior or first author in more prestigious journals such as Science, Nature or PNAS. Whilst the first is possible, the second is easier said than done."
&&& "collecting and publishing groundbreaking ecology data in top journals can take years longer than other disciplines".
4. and the most serious problem "The journals I have been publishing in are not familiar to some of the members of recruitment panels I’ve met with. I have even been asked if ‘Ibis’ and ‘Parasites & Vectors’ were proper journals."
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