Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [nigerianbiomedicalandlifescientists] DEGREE PROJECTS FOR SALE IN NIGERIA!!!

This is possible where you have lecturer- supervisors who are sorters to use the adjective students use to describe the lecturers that  sell marks. The old practice of  plagiarising old projects is giving way to the new idea of paying others( usually graduates without jobs ) to write the project for a fee. These malpractices are possible where the supervisors collect a fee and ask the students to submit whatever they like for approval. However it backfires sometimes when the students are asked to defend the project before a panel of examiners (other lectuers), as inability to do so can attract a failed grade. Corruption in the Nigerian University system is endemic and disturbing, a reflection of the wider society.  If they have developed web sites for this, then the mal- practitioners are getting bold.Nigeria is a country where impunity is celebrated.

Nkolika

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [nigerianbiomedicalandlifescientists] DEGREE PROJECTS FOR SALE IN NIGERIA!!!

I have a problem with the idea of dismissing this project as pure invitation to cheat. 

I can see the potential, perhaps the outright certainty  of  abuse, but something very, very vital is happening here which it would be most wise to watch. 

The higher education book business in Africa has gained massive potential particularly after importation from the publication centres in the West became difficult  and this huge market seems to be underserved from my experience in Nigeria 10 years ago.

If the situation is still the same, there is really good money to be made from academic, particularly textbook publication. 

The educational possibilities of that are incalculable. 

I am deeply impressed by the ingenuity, drive and sheer acumen of this initiative. It could contribute a catalytic effect to academic book publishing in Nigeria.

Is there not a critical need for a vigorous indigenous academic writing and publishing industry? 

The multiplier effect of that would be stupendous over time. 

Now, I am not thinking the issues through as clearly as I should since the business model being employed is a minefield, liable to misuse, or even shaped in a way that could be seen as inviting  cheating, even though the site stipulates that the client must not use their materials verbatim but as study guides.

Is it not possible to discuss with this entrepreneur the dangers of his model and suggest how to refine it to defeat such use?

I almost wish I could do something similar but with more careful safeguards. 

thanks

toyin

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:26 AM, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <tvade3@gmail.com> wrote:

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From: Shittu, Aminu
Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:37 AM

 

DEGREE PROJECTS FOR SALE IN NIGERIA!!!

Dear all,

Uhmmm this is unbelievable! I can now agree that everything is possible in Nigeria! Two friends in Nottingham alerted me on these 2 powerful Nigerian websites that sell degree projects from HND to PhD levels in almost all specialties; topics and sample chapters were even provided and if you think a topic suits you what you just need to do is to make a payment and send them a scanned copy of your teller and you will receive a complete project ready for printing, binding and onward submission to the university where you are registered. My only question is what is the role of the institutional supervisor(s) then? May God save us in falling prey to these monsters! Here are the 2 websites for your perusal and commenting:

1. http://writers.com.ng

2. http://careerslight.com

Kindest regards,

Aminu.

Aminu Shittu,

Liverpool University Climate and Infectious Diseases of Animals (LUCINDA) Research Group,

Department of Epidemiology and Population Health,

Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool,

Leahurst Campus, Chester High Road, Neston, Cheshire CH64 7TE,

United Kingdom.

Mobile: +44(0)7990 689 961

http://www.liv.ac.uk/infection-and-global-health/staff/epidemiology-and-population-health/

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