No, research is not the only way to ensure the quality of Indian academia.
My take is:
Never - Theoretical research has no value ----- Industry oriented consultancy can be a game changer.......
Industry relevant experience is important. In Australia teaching has been reduced to casualised positions without tenure. Ironically tenured 'teaching' positions are defined solely by achieving PhD. Many of the universities have abandoned Masters level teaching and privileged the Degree followed by an honours year where students are drilled in how to prepare and identify a PhD project. What that equates to is a culture of laboratory rats with no external life experience, no practice, no real world problem solving. Their focus is purely research. They are also unwilling to teach on the whole as they get no credits for teaching only when they complete published outcomes.
The quality of supervision I experienced in PhD research was woeful. Eleven supervisors in eleven years and ten of the eleven of the supervisors had little awareness of basic academic presentations. Only one was published.
Sadly the vocational/work ready aspects of university study are perceived as of lower value than research/theory focused studies.
Not at all, research is just an aspect. You may need careful observation and undivided participation inorder to totally understand a phenomenon
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