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General enquiries about the organization of projects should be addressed to the ProjectCoordinator whereas specific enquiries about individual projects should be directed to theSupervisor.The Project Coordinator/Dean should ensure that all academic staff of the relevant Unit gets afair share of the number of projects. The number of projects allocated to an academic staff ofany Faculty/School/Institute shall be limited to a maximum (to be determined by the faculty)irrespective of whether they are individual or group projects. For co-supervised projects, thesupervision load will be considered as half for each supervisor. Any supervision in excess ofmaximum projects should be approved by the Dean of Faculty.Each student will be allocated a Supervisor. The number of supervisor per project shall berestricted to a maximum of two.3 TYPES OF PROJECTSThere are two types of projects;i. Projects Proposed by StudentsFor projects proposed/identified by students, the latter are required to discuss the proposal withpotential Supervisors from within or outside the department. The project title has to be approvedby the Supervisor(s) and the Department.Students are required to submit a proposal of the project, which should include the followingminimum information:1. Project Title2. Problem Statement3. Literature Review4. Research MethodologyThe proposal should be signed by the Supervisor(s) and submitted to the Project Coordinator bythe end of the first semester of the final year for students’ defense..
After approval by the department, a final list of projects with the names of supervisors andstudents prepared by the Project Coordinator is affixed on the Faculty/ School/Institute NoticeBoard(s).ii. Projects proposed by academic staff or other supervisorsThe Dean requests all academic staff concerned to submit a list of project titles to the ProjectCoordinator.A list of project titles available for the degree course is then prepared by the Project Coordinatorwith the input provided by the academic staff and potential supervisors.Students are given the opportunity to meet the supervisors to be informed about the variousprojects proposed. Interested students are thereafter requested to submit their choices to theProject Coordinator in one-two weeks’ time.Based on students’ choices, the projects are allocated by the Project Coordinator. After approvalby the Faculty/ School/Institute, a final list of projects with the names of supervisors andstudents prepared by the Project Coordinator is affixed on the Faculty/ School/InstituteNotice Board(s).This should be done three weeks after commencement of a semester.If there are difficulties in allocating projects, a departmental meeting is called to thrash out thematter.NB Students should be encouraged as far as possible to come up with their own projects.The two main criteria that must drive a project proposal are:o Feasibility of the project (time, supervision, cost implication, availability ofequipment and literature as well as likelihood of accessing expected data.)o Academic challenge
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