As a consultant involved in capacity building and professional support for young researchers, I have been closely involved with numerous post graduate students and their guides across the country. Often the complaints from the guides and regulatory authorities are: The students are very reluctant to conduct research They are not committed They resort to all sorts of unethical practices like data fudging, copy paste from senior's thesis/internet etc..
But after interacting with many committed post-graduate students and having close discussions with them, I really started wondering Is it really possible them to conduct ethical research at postgraduate level? Have a look at the following: Many private medical institutions don't have sufficient caseload to provide adequate sample size for even simplest of research projects: forced to fudge data No organisational support, if there is any…
