Comments on: Academic Project – A Means to Exploit Students ????? http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/ Disruptive Technologies, Modern Education, Shrouded Social Issues and Dirty media propaganda Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:49:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: VANI http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-8121 VANI Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:40:39 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-8121 sir Dr.Nirmala Prasad itself encourages all the nonsense happening in the collge. The blogger is absolutely right. sir

Dr.Nirmala Prasad itself encourages all the nonsense happening in the collge. The blogger is absolutely right.

]]> By: Dr.Nirmala Prasad http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-7973 Dr.Nirmala Prasad Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:22:22 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-7973 Sir, The one who has posted about our staff, Mrs.Vijayalakshmi Sailapathi, are just mischievous and nothing they posted can be true. Mrs.Vijayalakshmi Sailapathi is the most efficient staff of our college and she does things better than most others in the teaching profession. As a Principal of MOP V College, I have not received any complaint of this sort so far. Sir,

The one who has posted about our staff, Mrs.Vijayalakshmi Sailapathi, are just mischievous and nothing they posted can be true. Mrs.Vijayalakshmi Sailapathi is the most efficient staff of our college and she does things better than most others in the teaching profession. As a Principal of MOP V College, I have not received any complaint of this sort so far.

]]> By: Shaji http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6254 Shaji Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:47:27 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-6254 Students must have a right attitude against their studies. First of all they should be very much interested in the subjects that they have to learn in the college. The second is self confidence. If both of these qualities are ok, then they will tell their teachers and HOD that they will do it by self and it is their right to do it. But the fact that there are so many materials to learn and the research time is limited, there is no wrong to consult the professionals to seek guidance. But first they must try to do by self. Compelling them to go to a specific institution only for the commission is very bad. If any one compels you to do so please publish it (of cource after your studies) because you are not a robot but a man with social obligation to react against bad things. Students must have a right attitude against their studies. First of all they should be very much interested in the subjects that they have to learn in the college. The second is self confidence. If both of these qualities are ok, then they will tell their teachers and HOD that they will do it by self and it is their right to do it. But the fact that there are so many materials to learn and the research time is limited, there is no wrong to consult the professionals to seek guidance. But first they must try to do by self. Compelling them to go to a specific institution only for the commission is very bad. If any one compels you to do so please publish it (of cource after your studies) because you are not a robot but a man with social obligation to react against bad things.

]]> By: Vijayalakshmi Sailapathi http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6230 Vijayalakshmi Sailapathi Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:34:33 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-6230 Hello Mr.Kenny, I don't think that you have any right to publish adverse comment about me even as blog. The blogger (mouni) is not right and I gently warn you to correct your mistake. Hello Mr.Kenny,

I don’t think that you have any right to publish adverse comment about me even as blog.

The blogger (mouni) is not right and I gently warn you to correct your mistake.

]]> By: Raj http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-4619 Raj Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:46:08 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-4619 Yes, the academic projects system in Kerala is pathetic. I had also such experiences during my college days. We wished to implement our own project ideas. We were able to succeed in that, but suffered a lot. I think the following are the main reasons for this situation: *)Lack of knowledge about latest technologies among the teaching staff in Engineering colleges *)Lack of interest among students themselves to learn and experiment with new things *)Lack of genuine guidance if some one really overcome the above hurdles. Most of the private centers doesn't have the capability to promote such attempts. We are responsible to suggest some solutions also if we are raising problems. I can only suggest the following: *)While appointing teaching staff for an Engineering College, the management should consider to appoint innovative and experienced(at least in programming) staff also. They should make a balanced team of Academic as well as innovative staffs. These staffs should develop their knowledge according to the new happenings in the industry *)Students also need to thing out of box bravely. They must experiment with new technologies like Web3.0 languages like Python,Ruby etc as well as the traditional/academic languages such as C/C++, Java etc. Personally, I can offer some guidance for small academic projects in Python, Mobile etc, if the students possess self-learning capabilities with some sort of creativity (or at least interested to do their projects in a different way) Yes, the academic projects system in Kerala is pathetic.
I had also such experiences during my college days. We wished to implement our own project ideas. We were able to succeed in that, but suffered a lot.
I think the following are the main reasons for this situation:
*)Lack of knowledge about latest technologies among the teaching staff in Engineering colleges
*)Lack of interest among students themselves to learn and experiment with new things
*)Lack of genuine guidance if some one really overcome the above hurdles. Most of the private centers doesn’t have the capability to promote such attempts.

We are responsible to suggest some solutions also if we are raising problems. I can only suggest the following:
*)While appointing teaching staff for an Engineering College, the management should consider to appoint innovative and experienced(at least in programming) staff also. They should make a balanced team of Academic as well as innovative staffs. These staffs should develop their knowledge according to the new happenings in the industry
*)Students also need to thing out of box bravely. They must experiment with new technologies like Web3.0 languages like Python,Ruby etc as well as the traditional/academic languages such as C/C++, Java etc.

Personally, I can offer some guidance for small academic projects in Python, Mobile etc, if the students possess self-learning capabilities with some sort of creativity (or at least interested to do their projects in a different way)

]]> By: shanthi http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-3695 shanthi Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:14:37 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-3695 i'm doing final year project for dotnet.dotnet is best for a project or not ?please send the suggestion quickly i’m doing final year project for dotnet.dotnet is best for a project or not ?please send the suggestion quickly

]]> By: Carb0n http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-3389 Carb0n Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:44:28 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-3389 Lessons 'enforced' from childhood: 1) You should comply with parents' thoughts and ideas -- they're right even IF they're wrong. 2) You should NEVER answer back your teachers.. after all, they are know-alls. 3) Winning is NOT important.. just participation is. (WTF?!) 4) Marks are the basis for EVERYTHING in future. You study well or not.. your answer papers should reflect a cent percentage. 5) You shouldn't take your revenge on teachers... someone 'up there' will make them pay for it. (WTF?!) Well, I'm not an engg., but I've studied in an engg. college to see its shody atmosphere. I know at least 2-3 people who consulted me to know what 'namespaces' in C++ is because they're teacher don't know it (well, the funny fact is that most of these 'lecturers' are just B.Tech passouts from some other near-by college). The oldies that stick on on like mold on to the dept. are super-strict. No questions in class.. what I say is the NORM. You should only study from the books I SAY. WTF?, does a 60+ teacher in CS know what the latest lang is? BTW, why the F*CK are we still stuck is Java/C/C++ when you have Python/Ruby/ to do your project on? Then again, I wasn't an engg. student, just a computer hobbyist in search of a proper guide. In the end, I decided to join the Dark Side and did my MBA. Wow.. don't make me start what we had to do there... :o Lessons ‘enforced’ from childhood:
1) You should comply with parents’ thoughts and ideas — they’re right even IF they’re wrong.
2) You should NEVER answer back your teachers.. after all, they are know-alls.
3) Winning is NOT important.. just participation is. (WTF?!)
4) Marks are the basis for EVERYTHING in future. You study well or not.. your answer papers should reflect a cent percentage.
5) You shouldn’t take your revenge on teachers… someone ‘up there’ will make them pay for it. (WTF?!)

Well, I’m not an engg., but I’ve studied in an engg. college to see its shody atmosphere. I know at least 2-3 people who consulted me to know what ‘namespaces’ in C++ is because they’re teacher don’t know it (well, the funny fact is that most of these ‘lecturers’ are just B.Tech passouts from some other near-by college).

The oldies that stick on on like mold on to the dept. are super-strict. No questions in class.. what I say is the NORM. You should only study from the books I SAY. WTF?, does a 60+ teacher in CS know what the latest lang is?

BTW, why the F*CK are we still stuck is Java/C/C++ when you have Python/Ruby/ to do your project on?

Then again, I wasn’t an engg. student, just a computer hobbyist in search of a proper guide. In the end, I decided to join the Dark Side and did my MBA.

Wow.. don’t make me start what we had to do there… :o

]]> By: SAF http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-3228 SAF Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:42:59 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-3228 What can be done by letting the world know about such practices?? Nothing can be done with students of boneless backbones. Nothing means nothing to eradicate such practices. Present day students are too bad in doing the right thing at the right time. They know only to hear what others say and believe its essence rather than understanding what the core is. So the title 'Exploiting...' can be restated as 'Molding'. May not suite the meaning, but thats it. What can be done by letting the world know about such practices?? Nothing can be done with students of boneless backbones. Nothing means nothing to eradicate such practices. Present day students are too bad in doing the right thing at the right time. They know only to hear what others say and believe its essence rather than understanding what the core is.
So the title ‘Exploiting…’ can be restated as ‘Molding’. May not suite the meaning, but thats it.

]]> By: Exploiting Students - This time its lottery tickets http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/comment-page-1/#comment-3224 Exploiting Students - This time its lottery tickets Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:29:38 +0000 http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/02/04/academic-project-a-means-to-exploit-students/#comment-3224 [...] Students are exploited in many ways by their staff, management and even the government. Read about exploitation using academic proects here. [...] [...] Students are exploited in many ways by their staff, management and even the government. Read about exploitation using academic proects here. [...]

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