Student Projects: Are We Killing it?
Student Projects made its entry to colleges with the implementation of Choice Based Credit and Semester Scheme (CBCS). As a mandatory component of the coursework in the fifth semester for the Undergraduate and fourth semester in the postgraduate programmes, it was brought in. In the midst of paradigm shift that the CBCS curriculum heralded, doing away with the year schemes and introduction of semester, the student project work was another novel element. It has stayed on though it's mandatory character has been revised of late. Now an Undergraduate student doesn't have to compulsorily do a project but can opt for a course in its place. Without denying the benefits the introduction of research projects may have brought to a wafer thin section of the students community, this post attempts to point out how this move could have been a system changer in Higher Education and what helped kill another well-intended move by the curriculum setters through systemic academic apathy. The