PROJECT WORK IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Project work especially during the final year is one of the most important issues that a lot more students have to deal with. Some of the students who are lucky or unlucky to come across hardworking lecturers and teachers tend to face a lot of challenges when managing project work. It is understandable that the pressure of the modern world makes it sometimes difficult to meet the needs of the modern student who is almost always distracted by new forms of technology and so on. In the end, it does not make them productive considering the huge amount of options that are available to them.

This sad phenomenon has unfortunately contributed to a lot more students not being innovative enough to identify challenges that could have been studied during this process to come out with better solutions for making the lives of human kind better.

Project work period should have been a time when students get the chance to learn about the realities of the world out there in order to link it with the theories from the lecture halls. Unfortunately, most students do not take it serious and do not put the needed effort in making good use of the opportunity available to them.

Most of the products and services that have made the most impact on the world came out as a result of the attention that were given to researching into these topics and ideas that developed into useful products and services that we are all enjoying now. They came out to become big projects and business opportunities for people who had better eye and could see beyond the surface.

No wonder most organizations are complaining about the fact that most graduates come out of their institutions with less practical knowledge than needed to absorb them into industry with little stress. Students should accept the fact that experience cannot be acquired by just reading books and watching other people. It will take even more than just a few actions to translate what we learn from the classrooms and lecture theaters into practicable and meaningful things that we can make livelihood out of. As young people, we think that we deserve and should be given more to play around with. On the other hand, we also have to give more so as to be gievn more.