Well its kinda true what Mahmood Nagrial has just said. For example, what about the MS degree awarding universities where research is not mandated. In such universities, students are allowed to take 3-4 more courses (as part of course work) rather than having Research based Thesis and publications. Such students should not be allowed to do PhD as they haven't had any prior experience of research which is the most crucial aspect of PhD.
If it is permitted then even inferior quality universities will start giving PhD degrees to everyone (without much work) and that would just put a BAD name to Pakistan's education if incompetent people are allowed to hold PhD degrees. No offense, but at least there should be some filtering mechanism (whether its CGPA, research publications to must have before entering PhD, etc.)
We don't want the world to think that Pakistan's PhD degree holders have truly not earned it. Some such cases will demolish reputation of all of our worthy and hard working PhD degree holders from PIEAS, NUST, GIKI, FAST, QAU, etc.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Mahmood Nagrial <M.NAGRIAL@uws.edu.au> wrote:
It is strange argument to allow every M.Sc. holder to do Ph.D. The student must be able to do independent research, analysis and critique existing knowledge. He/she must have a minimum standard to perform these activities and also aptitude.
It is the same argument that every H.Sc. holder must be allowed to enter a medical or engineering college.
Regards
Mahmood
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Yes, its totally unfair. If a HEC recognised institute issues MS degree, then its right of the student to take admission in PhD.
Regards
Sajjad
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On Jul 18, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Adnan Abid <adnanabid7@gmail.com<mailto:adnanabid7@gmail.com>> wrote:
Salam,
I hear that HEC has set up 3.0 CGPA requirement for admission in PhD, whereas the passing criteria for MS degree is 2.5.
If a person with fairly good academic record has not been able to secure a CGPA of 3.0 or above then he/she is deprived of getting admission in PhD.
Furthermore, students with equal CGPA from different universities have different calibre.
With this email, I would like to float a resolution, that the admission in PhD should be the discretion of a university rather than HEC, i.e. every person who has cleared MS should be able to get admission in PhD provided he/she fulfils the criterion of a particular university.
kind regards,
-adnan
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