Don’t forget that Science as we know it now has the Catholic Church as its mother!… However science had to part ways from the Church for its own good.

So is that a case of a lousy mother?

It’s the Moslems who got there first (Catholicism is a relatively young religion). Without the Islamic scholars and emphasis on science and propagating scientific texts the science as we know it won’t be……..even the concept of ‘degrees’ and ‘phd’s are borne out of madrassas.

How a very science-based religion has devolved over centuries is another matter.

Roger Bacon, William of Ockham, Albertus Magnus all priests and all scientists. All founders of Science and one of them is a saint.

However science had to be part ways from the Church for its own good.

Also most competitive departments in good universities in the world have only 2-3 PhD students per prof. So NCPAG with its 15 PhDs should have just 30 PhDs at one time that can be well supervised and come up with good contributions to knowledge and this can only be assessed by the number of publications that come out.

A PhD student is a major investment of the university and the student concerned, and if he/she is a student of the national university, of the nation also. That’s why we have to ensure that the PhD student as much as possible according to high standards, earns his/her credentials, do groundbreaking research and come up with innovative ideas that would boost teaching and help advance our economy.

In good universities, the PhD completion rate nears 100%

For PhD training, I believe that we should do away much with the blue book and assess the students for their ability to do innovative research. That’s following the European model though.

You don’t need GMA to boost science and the humanities. What we need is a President with vision. Now the presidentiables sorry to say have not said anything much with this regard. We should take off the yellow, orange, green what have you tinted glasses.

Time to drop the word ‘national’ from the UP-National Center for Public Adminisration and Governance or UP-NCPAG?

Time to accept only from 2 to 5 students in any doctoral program of study and graduate only the same number of students in the program so as to satisfy the requirements of “zero-wastage”?

If I can follow blackshama’s drift, it may time as well to bring back GMA in the highest seat of power so that she infuses a big chunk of money to UP again for – the sciences?

Obviously, UP-NCPAG has become inter-disciplinary in approach and therefore has veered away from so-called ‘departmental isolation’, if my perception is not a mistaken one.

There is a great difference in living with the religious
Gospels from the Holy Books. And practicing your religion
as: Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, agnostic, atheist, etc…

Religious teachers: PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!