Opinion
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Perspective on combining teaching and research in Indian academic institutions: the need of the hour
A personal take on how science faculty at The IIS University in Jaipur, balance teaching and research roles.
What is interdisciplinary science?
Over-emphasis on the so-called “Molecular Biology” has stunted Biology
Besides the overflow of new information and poor teaching, the undue emphasis on molecular biology and concomitant undermining or simple ridicule of basic biology (including biodiversity) seems to be another important factor for the present mess. The absence of informed and inspiring teachers, highly compartmentalized and fragmented course contents is compounded by an utter lack of any meaningful laboratory work in the "classical" as well as "modern" teaching programs.