Lack of dedication, commitment and hardworking of PhD students

Lack of assistance and direction of supervisors who cause more harm than good

Frustrating agencies involved in the study (as study areas) who may be reluctant to cooperate in studies

The busy schedules of respondents who may often times not honor their interview schedules

Lack of financial support/funding

Family and work responsibilities

Sophisticated, Unclear and very broad research (with insufficient/ hard-to-find or narrow data-primary and secondary data)

Lack of motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic)

Failure to be disciplined in following work schedules and plans

Which factors cause the unnecessary delay or failure in the completion of Masters/PhD research programs?

These include:

I think that some factors that cause the unnecessary delay or failure are:

incorrect formulation of the research problem

committing to unattainable or very extensive objectives

lack of knowledge of the subject

lack of novelty in research

family or personal health problems

economic problems

Dear Md Ali Khan Nagal,

The following opinion is focused on the undertaking of PhDs. Firstly, it should be recognised that doing a PhD is one of the hardest career related projects a human will ever undertake. It is a 3-4 year long journey which, in the most part, is a lonely experience with limited support but requiring a high level of thinking and ability.

Secondly, there are numerous factors which can affect the desired outcome of successfully completing a PhD within 3-4 years. These factors, to name a few, can be writing ability, English skills, family issues, personal problems, health issues, supervision problems, work commitments, fear of failure, motivation, procrastination etc.

If we view a PhD as a three-stage process: 1) topic/literature review, 2) methodology/data collection, and 3) write up/completion, the third stage can be very problematic for many PhD candidates. Many can do the first two stages ok but really struggle to write up a coherent story, using a high-level of English, which presents the PhD as a holistic, well-argued research document supported by evidence.

In many respects, the American PhD, with course work and a smaller research component, is more conducive for successful outcomes/completions, than say the Anglo-Saxon PhD, practiced in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

Lack of dedication, commitment and hardworking of PhD students

Lack of assistance and direction of supervisors who cause more harm than good

Frustrating agencies involved in the study (as study areas) who may be reluctant to cooperate in studies

The busy schedules of respondents who may often times not honor their interview schedules

Lack of financial support/funding

Family and work responsibilities

Sophisticated, Unclear and very broad research (with insufficient/ hard-to-find or narrow data-primary and secondary data)

Lack of motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic)

Failure to be disciplined in following work schedules and plans

I am a proper case regarding suervision issues;

my master supervisor died before approving the proposal; thus; I had to re-write the proposal and continue with an instructor does not know much more than me... he, unfortunately, misled me... my hardship because of working on a challenging and new field increased; thanks to his Irresponsibility to direct me....

he should not undertake my supervision while had not a PHD degree and relevant knowledge...I had no one to advise me take adequiet time for each phase of the project, and how to deal with unpredictable issues...

by the way, collaborating with military client, was why extend it to 2 more semesters.

I know some another cases which was affected by such problems and nobody cares how such supervisors play with future of students....

The colleagues mention many important factors that may have negative influence on the success of a PhD project. Based on my personal experience I can add:

- Limitations or over-expectations from the framing (embedding) third party (company, national, EU) project,

- Lack of building a proper research model and research design

- Superficial identification and specification of the research phenomena (challenge, focus, knowledge, etc.).

- Lacking or improper decomposition of the research project into manageable interlaced research cycles

- Negative experiences with releasing the early results for a public debate (selection of publication forums, unfavourable reviews, lack of collaboration)

- Indefendable (not justifiable, validatable and consolidatable) assumptions and outcomes

- Lack of colleague-colleague relationship between supervisor(s) and candidates

- Tunnel vision and lack of adaptibility

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Lack of correlation between the performed or performing work and the ultimate goal is a factor which delays the award of M.tech / PhD degree.

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First thing is lack of literature review then research lab setup, family support, guide moral support, hard work etc. can be considered as main factors.

Sir, i think this problem may occur when zeal and frustration of not achieving things for pursuing thesis work.

Lots of factors are associated with this this may be due to some mental tension, career tension.

Passive Supervisor support is also cause of lagging in target.

Sometimes willingness to do work is their but there always exist some financial, non availability of requisite testing equipment or apparatus constraint which add to backflip.

Most important is selection of topic and its research objectives which should be feasible and all resources required for accomplishing this should be easily available, because at last stages of experimentation it happens, that particular resources availability and its importance in research hampers a lot......

Hope my answer will succeed to a satisfaction.

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Dear Dr. Fred Y Robinson,

Thanks for expert opinion and useful links.

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Some factors required for successful researcher

Otherwise it results in disaster.

Dear Dr. Movva

could you please explain on "A little bit of luck" ?

There are several factors that could contribute to a masters /Ph.D. Student delay or failure. I wish to categories them into; Student related, supervisor and University.

Student

• The candidate must at the outset understand the postgraduate journey and should have adequate conviction to pursue this path i.e the academic Journey.
• Students who are NOT fit or have the requisite academic potential to pursue postgraduate studies.
• Lack of a proper understanding of the postgraduate rules and regulations of a given university.
• Lack of scientific writing skills
• Lack analytical and other skills such as critical analysis
• Misplaced priorities- do many other things not related to the postgraduate work
• Poor choice of a study area, hence could lack adequate data or response rate.
• Inability to contribute to knowledge
• lack comprehension of their study area. this arises from the inability of the students to read widely in order to identify a niche and hence make a contribution.
• Failure to take on the supervisee role and sometimes behave as though they are perfect.
• Lack of respect to the supervisor- create a good working relationship as provided in the respective university regulations
• Lack of proper communication skills
• Academic fraud
• Too much expectations on the supervisor
• Inability to secure support from the family
• Varnshing in the academic forest without trace for sometime

Supervisor

• Too much workload
• lack of adequate supervision skills especially where a student is very creative or venturing a new analysis strategy.
• Negative attitude towards the conduct of the student
• Students having too high expectations

Institution

• Poor management of postgraduate programmes
• Failure to address students complaints

The key question we must always answer as students id who graduates?

Dear Dr. Nemati

From research point of view luck favors people with perseverance. Sometimes you may get a solution (idea) suddenly for a nagging problem. Also sometimes things may work in your way very quickly, that may be called luck.

Dedicated hard work and

Critical Thinking

Lack of assistance and direction of supervisors who cause more harm than good

There are numerous factors for such failures:

a) Lack of clarity

b) absence of focus/purpose

c) Miscommunication between guide and student

d) Family /personal reasons

e) not able to publish

f) lack of sufficient lab facilities

g) the research problem has become outdated

h) no support from parent instition

i) not able to communicte

Thanks

There are n numbers of uncontrolable factors which create bottel-necks in time PhD in India academics systems.We can not totally removed these factors but we can minimize these.

1.Strong chemistry between supervisor and scholar required

2. Dedication, committement and due respect to supervior are expected by the scholar.

3.Scholar must strictly follow supervisor orders always.

4. A lot of hard work required to get Phd in time.