Generally, deemed university follows the norms of UGC and quality Ph D work to be ensured. However, alternatively, to have quality researchers, (1) either academician should be exposed to the R & D work (compulsory experience in R & D organisation or development of project for the manufacturers or work exposer in a pure R & D organisation. Either cases, outcome should be implementable in industry for society benefit. (2) Find people who has worked in research. (3) The evaluation process of Ph D work to be done in depth (Could be through independent committee, where there is no involvement of local authority)

i agree with u sir due to qualification for assistant professor is M.Tech., many universities provide the M.Tech. degree as per candidate not to attend any class and their research nothing just copy-paste of other work and universities give these candidates M.Tech. degree. what the f.......

many universities provide M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees as per candidate pay money or nothing quality work in their thesis and dissertation.

As I think, the research publications should be considered for promotions, not the PhD. There are some academics do research continuously & publish papers without registring for a PhD. On the other hand, one can complete PhD with 2/3 publications. The authorities can make PhD compulsory, but a marking scheme should be prepared so as the PhD holder has done sufficient research prioir to become a Prof.

yes, definitely but quality of research is very important in the society.

yes definitely

It is difficult to curb the low quality research work carried out by different Universities and the Research work is merely become just obtaining the promotion for Professor. and Associate Professor.

One Idea is that Research work should be considered only regularly mode. and another one is that the duration of PhD should also be increased, since original research is not carried out in a short tenure of two years which is minimum time for submission or award of the PhD degree.

The same attitude is being adopted in Pakistan for the post of Assistant and Associate Professor. But along with this, HEC Pakistan has included experience, service years and number of projects to appoint someone on these posts. I think this shall be followed in India too

i agree with u sir due to qualification for assistant professor is M.Tech., many universities provide the M.Tech. degree as per candidate not to attend any class and their research nothing just copy-paste of other work and universities give these candidates M.Tech. degree

Action should be taken if duplicacy found in the research work , on the supervisor as well on the student

It is very unfortunate that UGC/AICTE made Ph.D degree mandatory for promotions or for higher academic positions. This instead of improving the quality in education system will spoil the quality of Ph.D degree being produced. I strongly believe that Ph.D should be pursued more with passion rather than with a specific need to meet some trivial criteria like promotion.

Also, I believe that only the research supervisor and research candidate (of course with research mindset) can enforce the quality of the Ph.D no one else can do that not even the regulations of university.

@dinesh ramegowda rightly said !!!

University Grants Commission recommendations, I consider is good. During doctoral research a candidate is asked for through literature search on his research area, learn experimental part, modern computer applications, statistical analysis and training skill for writing thesis. All this work definitely improves academic quality of the researchers. Regarding quality of research the work is examined by qualified Professors within the country and abroad. Further I consider that until two papers are not accepted in peer reviewed good journals, the candidate should not be considered for awarding Ph. D. degree by the University. I have guided more than dozen Ph. D students in a University of repute.

Sir I do not think that a large number of doing Ph.D. degrades the teaching quality. UGC has made Ph.D. compulsory, that why people are doing Ph.D., but for teaching of BE/B.Tech, Ph.D. level is not necessary. They are teaching very well after gaining Master degree only. Their syllabus are not so difficult that only Ph.D. candidate can teach.

@sudhanshu, BTW 99% of time PhDs are not good instructors. And its reasonable, PhDs are made to do research not to teach.

I agree with Imran Shafi, Ph.D can bring in different perspective to the teaching which essentially improves the learning process.

I believe that in general it depends VERY much on each University and the programs offered. As there are high and low quality universities, there are high and low quality PhD courses. For the sake of teaching, though, assuming that PhD titles are not exactly obtained easily anywhere and usually require publications, it does make a difference for any lecturer to have 3+ years of study and scientific development, regardless of the number of applicants. The most important is that the university contractor should have the common-sense of checking the background of potential professors and deciding over relevant candidates. Academia is not exempt of filtering and that is a very good thing.

At present what is happening for acquired Ph.D. degrees that is not good for research as well as teaching profession. There should be some strict rules for Ph.D. Only National Universities should be permitted for this purpose.

Ph.D should certify that the owner of this degree is capable of carrying independent research in the domain of the thesis. It is the full responsibility of the Ph.D. tutor, if such an awarded degree really corresponds to the ethical requirements before fulfilling the national requirements. The proof of quality of research is the publication of results. In which journals? Again, the tutor has to decide. It is a very good situation if there are many candidates for Ph.D. studies! The tutor can choose much easier without compromise for quality.

Now, is Ph.D. required for teaching in universities? Up to a certain level, no. But some professors should become Ph.D. tutors! It is thus, I believe, obvious that they should hold this degree. Up to which level Ph.D. could be disregarded? It depends on the country and university. If postulants are numerous for various reasons (salary, social position), then Ph.D. can be requested from the first permanent position, but this is a rare and fortunate situation.

There are many well thought out answers above .. I would add IMHO..

1. There is a vast need for a faster and practical method of transferring new knowledge

to the next generation. especially with new the technology... eg MOOC.. so those faculty interested in just teaching need to do research/ PhD in Theories

of Learning and Teaching..Massive changes are expected in the education sector in the coming decade and even universities as we know them now may completely

change their method of operation eg https://www.coursera.org/ certificates..

Universities may be reduced to just evaluating and certifying..., practicals /lab experience may only be needed and even this could be as apprentices by

working in Industries..etc

2. There is a need also for real passionate innovative researchers....they may take up research as is conventionally done. and develop high end laboratories in universities..

3. Regarding salary/ position it should be independent of case 1or 2 but

dependent on impact factor (what and how this factor is ..is open..eg student

employability..etc)

4. Lastly my own perception of Ph.D is ..it alters the personality

due to its rigor and need for hard work and thinking about latest trends

in a positive way ..so that students experience a faculty who is open to

questioning of present knowledge..

a further possibility is to have course driven Ph.D as is already done in many masters level at USA uni's. at Master's level . It would make sense to spend the time of a candidate

to acquire a large field of established knowledge at a deep level rather than

just grapple with " made up " problems just for the sake of a thesis. promotions/

pay etc can be impact based using metrics as already stated including research papers..etc

As I think, most of the universities are not thinking about quality of research and are just complete the quorum. This should be ban. The degrees provided for Ph.D. will never be at par.

The research work is not administration/management. PhD degree noway provides these quality. Hence, there is no relevancy between PhD & higher position. Teaching is specific skill and in depth knowledge of predefined area. For this, PG level as well as many cases UG level are enough. My experience says, many a time, PG/UG people are much better than even PhD. Hence, I strongly believe, the PhD degree should be de-link with higher promotions. However, there are ways PhD must be appreciated better way. Thus we can have good/capable people at higher level and same time we can encourage Research work

You are right sir. the quality of Ph.D. has been deteriorated in india like any thing since these private universities and other universities were established. 

Now a days phd are totally fake.

Part time phd program should be scrapped off immediately.

H 10; i10: Scopusv etc etc. indexing should be considered for promotions.

PHD is done only on people interest not for academic purpose.

Can anyone share the latest guidelines of UGC for the award of Ph.D degree by any University.