Academic Projects FOR SALE
- Thursday, October 1, 2009, 12:51
Training institutes offer projects and when we say, offer we mean they sell projects. The training is just an idea out here. It is purely business but this doesn’t mean that all of them are selling projects but some of them are. This is the time when students gear up to get their projects done. Some software companies develop less software and sell more projects to students. It is indeed very profitable for the institutes and no doubt they would promote the idea of ready made. They can sell the same project to many by just changing titles.
These institutes or the so called project sellers are in the safety zone because the students are there to buy there projects and hardly do people cross check whether these projects are authentic or a pull off from some other projects.
The Loser
The end results of all these factors are going to point out the very simple fact that the students are the only losers. The academic project is a grand opportunity for the students to understand the functioning and the process involved in building an application. Every student is given about six months to go around with their project and this indeed an opportunity for them to understand get a feel of the professional world.
“I worked for a BPO for three months and earned enough to buy a project and even accumulate some savings for myself” said 23 year old Mahesh Adithyan (name changed). And this is the case with most of the engineering students. The best thing to do is to grab the opportunity to learn what would be the life cycle of a project by doing a project completely on your own. Understand the domain, database design, user-interface design, coding etc.
The Business
The “Academic Projects” business is a flourishing one. The institute’s act like a middle man. They help a set of student to complete their respective projects initially and there after they start selling and reselling these projects. The motive is purely profit and with less investment rather almost nothing this surely is going to fill a lot of pockets. These projects are available starting from Rs. 3000 upto Rs. 8000 depending on the kind of projects you are looking out for.
Most of these institutes or organization started of as places to help students groom while they are working on the projects and help them work on the projects. Over the period they have evolved to be a source for finished projects and that too at a cost.
There is nothing that could be done to stop this business except for that the students start understanding the importance of academic projects. The colleges should take interest in the selection criteria of the projects and should act like a guide where in the students could get a lot of support from within the colleges itself. The students should choose proper institutes and organization to complete their projects instead of wasting their time and finally buying the projects at a cost that is going to cost them a lot and when we say cost we are talking about the lost opportunity to gain the experience.
