Every research seeks to solve a problem; one that you can create yourself, one that is inspired by societal issue and others. Any research that does not intend to solve any problem is worse than a broken record because even a mere term paper is problem solving or at least proposes an idea.

There are several platforms and places where you can find problems to solve in your research project; they include

Recommendations from previous research
Researchers at all levels state clearly the scope of their study; this invariably implies that there are other areas which the research does not intend to delve into. So researchers very often make recommendations for further research on the areas their research couldn’t cover; that has been one of the major sources of research project topics.

From controversial issues
Issues that have raised a lot of controversies in the society need scientific evidences to arrive at considerable conclusion; as such, research is the only way out. When people argue about social influences, the economy, politics, use of contraceptives, human bio-chemistry, animal science and the likes, one needs a significant and evident proof to make a point. As a matter of fact, some of such areas are very good avenues to get a research project topic.

Research ideas from recurring issues
When issues linger for long without any sign of resolution it becomes a problem with time. In such cases, you as the researcher can cease the opportunity to study the issues, find out the several measures deployed to solve the matter and ascertain the next line of action.

What your research needs to study is not the issue actually; it’s the cause of the recurring issue. Once you put that in place, you may go ahead to proffer possible solution for the issue

I was rather fortunate as an undergraduate to have a side Job while writing my undergraduate project in final year. At first, outsourcing the time-taking areas of my research was never in my agenda as long of undergraduate research is concerned; I was so convinced my research was going to turn out exceptional if I handled it myself so it was hard trusting anyone else for such outcome. But as time went on, I realized that even the areas I was enthusiastic about weren’t so easy to accomplish; it demands a lot time which I don’t have. My job was always calling and school keeps ringing that ‘you must finish what have started’. Caught in that web, the word COLLABORATION came to mind.

Collaboration requires that I team up with people who have good understanding of my research project topic and are willing to contribute actively to my research. Now, running with that understanding, I took two major steps to gather resources for my research; and that I’m going to share.

Give out the problem areas and concentrate on the possible task.
Although I had a lot of responsibilities on my shoulder, I still had to be in charge of my research work by giving out the challenging areas of my research and focusing more on the real tasks which turned out my strength area. Pulling resources from a fellow was established on the bases that it was going to resolve the problem or reduce the challenge and yield results for my research.

Picture the outcome and state clearly to your team member(s)
Recall that this is a research project; you have your research objectives at heart more than they do. So while bringing in your knowledge partners into it, it’s advised you align their contribution to your research goals.
Secondly, there is nothing wrong if you ask them the procedures involved in helping you sort out your research.

Confirm the outcome when ready and in time
To avoid burn out, ensure it is submitted on time and proof-read; this is to confirm that you actually go what you wanted for you research.
Summarily, some people pay to get help for their research project; that’s cool if you can afford it plus it actually answers faster. But if you trust your knowledge partner enough to team with him, then your research project is half written if not completed.

To ask help for your project, please visit https://eduproject.com.ng/

It’s very easy to not complete what took you so long to start; interestingly that this is a sort of habit is relative to undergraduates particularly those in the final lap of their studies. Infact at some point, doing their ‘self-imposed’ research project, they find themselves struggling to finish ‘cos they are bored and not making anything out of their research. Well, they think they are bored with their project, but really there are loopholes they have not filled which is not letting them stage a smooth ride in their project field.

Some reasons you get bored with research project

Lack of research materials
Writing a research project can be discouraging, frustrating, demanding and almost impossible without atleast one research material to source ideas and opinions from. As custom requires, it is necessary as an undergraduate to provide references of previous research done in your area of research no matter how small or insignificant it may seem.

I have here free research materials that could be of help to your research…

They hardly think of an issue to research on
Some undergraduates are great consumers; they believe so much in sourcing research material whichever way without any effort to align their choices with it. They don’t have any research topic in mind, they don’t even know a current issue to relate with; they are just very quick to dive at a research material or topic that shows up. Don’t get me wrong, research materials are meant to facilitate your research project and not an avenue for copy and paste work, be guided.

Lack of understanding.
You can also find your research boring if you have little or no understanding of what you are working on. You may hardly paraphrase, make inferences, draw conclusion, give suggestions or even question a point of view if you do not understand the project topic you are working on, yes it could be boring and dry.

Big and already established business enterprises often get fed up with the issues of staffing then how much more startups. One of the very challenging issues that confront startups is staffing; when the need arises, it is expected that they need an additional labor force to help push the work faster and more conveniently. Unfortunately however, startups may likely find it weighty to afford whatever amount or stipend they pay their staff mostly due to low income plus the need to limit the level of expenditure considering the size of the organization.

While I have some research project topics that may have treated this issues from another perspective, I will like you to have handy some smarter ways you can save unnecessary cost and expenses as a startup while you still have everything working out just fine.

Reach out for virtual assistance
Virtual assistants are people who you hire as online contract persons, collaborators or team mates who can perform other tasks for you while you focus on your original task daily. As a startup this is ideal since you do not really need to have someone who you maintain with a basic salary whether or not he has something to do at work or not. For a virtual assistant you only pay when you give them a job to do; that saves you and the business lots of money.

How about freelancers
This is fast growing area of business that is fast gaining resistance in the global work force; people are beginning to think of displacing some of their staff since they always get what they want through freelancers. As a startup you shod leverage this too; visit freelance website and place an order on gigs that will save you a lot of stress and help you focus more on a singular task. The pay will not be an issue since you only need to place an order when you need assistance.

Outsourcing
To make work relatively cheaper for you as startup, you may equally outsource services from colleagues in the industry. They may decide to collaborate with you in their little way; this sort of collaboration work better in areas like research, web development, web design, graphic and lots more.

When parents send their children to school, it shouldn’t seem like they don’t know how to do the teaching better; I suppose someone thought of it and decided to invent the idea of school for a reason. If my guess is right, it is to inspire creative and thoughtful minds. The idea of school is already saturated with so many fields of knowledge with some people having to interfere into the intellectual capability of others just like the case of teacher-students.

The fundamental standard of learning in the formal education setting demands that students learn from teachers even when the teachers is not proven knowledgeable in that field. Now this is a prevalent issue in tertiary institutions were students happen to choose undergraduate project topics under the watch of their supervisors who sometimes may not decipher correctly a bad undergraduate project topic from a good one.
Here is what happens when students learn under the supervision of their teachers – it a two edged sword.

Students are guided against mistakes
Certainly students at all level are guided against mistakes especially when it involves project based learning. At the undergraduate level where students are mandated to present a final year project, supervisors are assigned to each student for the same purpose. Student’s oversights are noted and corrected either politely or rudely, either way works. Lol.

Possibility of limiting student’s creativity scope
By trying to correct their mistakes, teachers indirectly align student’s thought and ideas to a limit, confining their creativity to a limited scope. The place of a teacher is project based learning cannot be overlooked though but in many cases, the negative influence has been the reason behind many discouragements among students.

I’ did advice that parents and teachers alike, if they care so much about student’s academic performance, should engage their children and students respectively in a personal discussion. This avenue helps you understand how students prefer to be taught or supervised, why and a thoughtful way to assist.

When parents send their children to school, it shouldn’t seem like they don’t know how to do the teaching better; I suppose someone thought of it and decided to invent the idea of school for a reason. If my guess is right, it is to inspire creative and thoughtful minds. The idea of school is already saturated with so many fields of knowledge with some people having to interfere into the intellectual capability of others just like the case of teacher-students.

The fundamental standard of learning in the formal education setting demands that students learn from teachers even when the teachers is not proven knowledgeable in that field. Now this is a prevalent issue in tertiary institutions were students happen to choose undergraduate project topics under the watch of their supervisors who sometimes may not decipher correctly a bad undergraduate project topic from a good one.
Here is what happens when students learn under the supervision of their teachers – it a two edged sword.

Students are guided against mistakes
Certainly students at all level are guided against mistakes especially when it involves project based learning. At the undergraduate level where students are mandated to present a final year project, supervisors are assigned to each student for the same purpose. Student’s oversights are noted and corrected either politely or rudely, either way works. Lol.

Possibility of limiting student’s creativity scope
By trying to correct their mistakes, teachers indirectly align student’s thought and ideas to a limit, confining their creativity to a limited scope. The place of a teacher is project based learning cannot be overlooked though but in many cases, the negative influence has been the reason behind many discouragements among students.

I’ did advice that parents and teachers alike, if they care so much about student’s academic performance, should engage their children and students respectively in a personal discussion. This avenue helps you understand how students prefer to be taught or supervised, why and a thoughtful way to assist.

No matter how much you love being tried, you will certainly find yourself panic at the peak of the time even when you’ve approved of it; same way, some others hesitate to lend their ears to the sound of E-X-A-Ms and will gladly sign for a ward in a clinic than sitting for one. In the academic setting, this is often the situation but in this case many other different reactions to examination and general test-of-knowledge exist. We will cease few lines to look at how students perceive examination and how they respond to examination notices.

By the way, this education project topic dealt on similar issue; the case study and the outcome will thrill you.

How students perceive examination

Let’s say they are grouped (A - C)

Group A : These set of students perceive examination as what really makes them student’s and will question your intellectual capabilities if you don’t reason the same way. Seemingly, they would see examination as the best test of knowledge.

Group B : Examination for this group of students is not priority in the list of knowledge testing, however, they welcome the idea of examination with warm embrace and ofcourse prepare themselves for what they would have preferred as the true test of knowledge.

Group C : For this group, the word ‘examination’ shouldn’t have existed at first because it doesn’t seem to make sense anymore. They think examination should be as simple as testing them on what they know to do best not just on anything else they never care about, not even the courses they registered to study for the semester.

How students respond to examination notice

Group A : Although they will express worry over the nature of the examination questions, they are compelled to study deeply atleast to beat the panic and gain confidence.

Group B : They know they are not the ‘A’ students; that doesn’t mean they won’t welcome it if it comes by chance. So they study just to pass the course and can subscribe to misconduct to clear their path.

Group C : They are often overwhelmed with anxiety and wish the exams could be shifted till forever. This anxiety is often treated with negligence and procrastination till there is no more time. The last resort could just be malpractices.

NO, waiting to start seeking for job after NYSC would be one of the biggest mistakes you would have made in the course of your career especially if you do not have in mind to start a business of your own. Your Job seeking should start as soon as you get your certificate of graduation from your tertiary institution; waiting till your service year ends could keep you stranded for a while and may be for too long.

Once final year students go through the hustle of getting their research project topics approved and finally get it completed, I think the certificate of graduation is the only set back to job seeking. Infact, that is the very challenging moment for young school leavers because they could hardly call money from home, and they can only be employed for menial jobs till NYSC calls.

This routine has got to change. I understand that undergraduates receive their certificate of graduation prior to their service period. I am saying exactly that you should submit your cover letter and CV to the places you should apply during your service year. Why should you do so?

Well, submitting to various places during your service year will expose you several opportunities which include being employed as;

An Intern
Very often, organizations state very clearly in the qualification that they need a person with atleast two years’ experience for job xyz. The sound of that alone scares young graduates away. But you’ll have a better chance to prove a point if you apply as an intern in that organization.
When you apply as an intern, you will receive good training from the company to be paid probably not very substantial amount. However, they will employ you subsequently if they find you competent enough.

Graduate trainee
You could be employed as a graduate trainee and not as a professional. What happens is that you will be trained to work the company’s way. Most times they sponsor graduate trainees for professional and international training, conferences, summit and other skillful training they need to add value to the organization in which they are employed. The sweet side is that they also fix you in the pay roll.

One of the earliest practices final year undergraduates are made to do after their research project topic is approved is to present a proposal. This document contains the framework of your research project. It is expected that students defend it same way they would when presenting the actual research project; this is done to ascertain your level of interest and understanding of the issue you want to research on.

So, here are helpful tips on how to present your research project proposal with confidence;

Share your project proposal among the panel members
Once it gets to your turn, get in and greet (if necessary); the next thing you should do is to share the document containing your proposal among the panel members. This will enable them scan through, follow up with what you have to say and help them know what question to ask you.

Although they may likely trust what you say than what is written in the document, it is necessary they have a copy so they can edit your topic where necessary or give you a new topic if need be.

Introduce yourself
At this point, you will have to introduce yourself (Your name and reg.no. if necessary). Secondly you state your research project topic very clearly.

Present the ‘statement of problem
As one of the main reasons you are presenting a project proposal, the statement of problem should be stated in simple and grammatically accurate prose. If possible, read it and maintain eye contact with the defense panel. Sometimes they may ask you to elaborate more on the problem; try doing justice to that showing your level of understanding of the issue on ground.

Present the research methods you have adopted
Tell them about the research technique you have adopted, the research population, sampling procedure, sample size, instrument for data gathering and anything else you need to add under this category.

When you are done, you mat they wait to entertain some of the question they may throw at you, if any.

I just read a piece written by Bob Priest-Heck where he bluntly opined that “you don’t know what you don’t know unless you listen to diverse voices”. Unfortunately for ‘never-do-well’ undergraduates, they seem to dance to the tunes of digression when it comes to studies, collaborative learning which may require using research materials for students, project based learning like, examinations and sheer negligence to intellectual activities and neglect the several useful options available to them.

You don’t want to be called a never-do-well do you? If you haven’t decided yet, here are habits such students exert to make your decision a little snappy.

They never see anything good in bright counterparts
This set of undergraduates habitually watch out for the bad side of their bright course mates especially the ones that are not ready to assist them during test, examination or even do their take home assignments. They will have to remind you of how low your mentality is and how poorly you dressed and of course how you may likely not make it in the future.

Easily distracted
You can easily point out unsuccessful students when you realize they can be easily distracted. Nothing beats an academic pursuit where you wake up daily, complete what you have planned to accomplish for the day, take rest at night and resume the next day without getting distracted.

A typical academic environment has a lot of social, religious, cultural and academic activities that can easily drift your attention away from your normal routines. But you will do better if you are able to strike a balance than letting the crowd lead you.

Bad critics
Never-do-well undergraduates, as I will call them, often have every reason to doubt and criticize an idea, opinion, or any piece of information that will require intellectual stress or commitment. They easily throw abuses at no-nonsense lecturers who wouldn’t compromise to give them good grades, and most times regret every coming to school.

Asking questions about what the future holds for physical libraries is the same as asking what the future holds for books. Hard copy books have received considerable low attention since the use of digital books increasingly gained acceptance in the 21st century. Same way, the use of libraries as a better and conducive study atmosphere is no more the in-thing; what is more acceptable in this era is as simple as a click in your mobile device and you can have it – audio, video or do the reading any time, where ever. This scenario is fast putting hard copy books and physical libraries in a fix, raising such questions as ‘what’s the future of books’.

Judging from the fleeting nature of digitization, physical libraries would be history soon; this opinion is fueled by the very fact that very few pay homage to this study edifice since they can access whatever information they need from the comfort of their homes. The good old times accepted libraries as the best and only place to get intellectual knowledge even schools see it as a saving grace ‘cause they can easily access research materials for student final year project.

However, physical libraries have good chances to survive side by side with digital ones. Physical books command a certain level of credibility that digital books cannot attain no matter how much they try. They serve as reference point for authentication; while the sort of information online cannot be trusted due to its multi-source nature, physical books are still valuable since you go back to authenticate the many information you have gathered.

One may debate the opinion that online book sources cannot be trusted since physical books could be owned by unauthorized and apparently inexperienced persons. But then recall also that some of the information on the internet do not have the ideal names of the original authors; infact, there are good chances of duplicated contents but a good and well published physical book must pass through the a sieving process to copyright ownership.

In summary, books serve the same purpose in physical libraries and in the virtual world however, the means of the latter have inclined to a digital dimension. This may not in any way distort the activities of physical libraries since it has earned credibility and trust more than digital books can offer.

We go to library to read and make research, that’s the fundamental need a typical library serves; but a library has a bigger album at the background, what you go there to meet is the finished part. This is just a tip of what library science has to offer; getting a degree in library science and maybe a PhD is such a big accomplishment owing to the level of complications that surrounds it.

I was opportune to meet University of Uyo library science undergraduates who were trying to get over a class puzzle. At first, I wondered what was so special and frightful about library science; then One of the professors came, picked a catalogue as big as an oxford dictionary and as long as magazine and guess what!! She just located a name, a number and few things I couldn’t just understand and she solved the puzzle which was supposed to help them locate a research material for students. The story hasn’t ended yet, here are other facts I got to realize about getting a degree in library science;

Division of labor inspite of current digitization
One fact about library science is that it still upholds the principle of classicism which includes division of labor even with the innovation of digitization. There are people whose basic job is to pack books and resource materials back to their usual position, some check you in and out, some are in charge of registration, some are in charge of reserved materials, some are in charge of recording and just like that. The level of digitization may likely not affect the protocols in libraries except the world goes entirely digital.

Library science is indeed science
The technicality in library science studies is massive; it’s so peculiar that if you don’t know, you don’t know it till you are taught. Use of acronyms is their thing, ofcourse they can’t do without figures, records, documentation and identity.

Your degree can fetch you cool public and private jobs
Your library science degree can fetch you a good job in the public sector both at the federal, state and local level. I mean you can work in a federal or state records unit in any parasternal; you can also work in a library. You can also be lecturer of library science if you wish to continue in the academia.

I think it is necessary you realize that there are undisclosed reasons why the academic body of every tertiary institution insists on making students present a research project at the end of their study. Although the process has been compromised, the reason has not yet changed. Students have a lot of benefits to gain if they choose their research project topics, gather research materials and do the project writing themselves. Here are what you stand to gain;

Good start for continuity
If you intend to continue your Master’s degree project in that same research field, you will find it much easier to continue your research than choosing a new topic entirely. Coupled with the fact that you do your research project yourself, you’re already at advantage having mastered the variables, research terms, the research outcome, conclusion and the subsequent recommendations you would have made for further research.

Ability to defend your research outcome
If you write your research project yourself, defending your research and its outcome will not be a big deal. Putting yourself through the course of writing your undergraduate research project, slowly you will master the research terms plus the stages you have passed to get to that point. Atleast you should get used to your research objectives which basically brings into line with your research destination.

Helps you discuss your research findings with significance
If you actually write your research project yourself, you will stand a good chance to discuss your research findings favorably taking time to expatiate on the significance of your research findings; this is something you can’t bisect easily if someone does it in your stead. Discussing your research findings does not permit table reading as it was the tradition before; the research panel only requires you to give a candid analysis of your data presentation. Anyone can do this but not better than one who does it by himself/herself.

You wouldn’t be wrong if you think so; there are other primary factors that add up. However, looking at the businesses cycle in the 21st century, one of the biggest competitive advantage that businesses have is data. These data are fundamentally gotten directly from customers while the more private information are sometimes bought (you may not really know that).

These data are used meaningfully to better customer experience in business; the more sensitive the data, the more businesses can satisfy their clients better. No wonder many of the big establishments adopt data driven innovations. This is evident in financial institutions, social media, phone companies, accessory industries and the likes. If you did an undergraduate project research in business administration or management, you will get to understand what data means in business especially if you did a research on data and business related topics. That notwithstanding;

Why do businesses need such big data?

Understand customer preferences
Compiling and analyzing data allows organizations to classify their customer needs and preferences based on demographics like age, gender, status, religion etc. and psychographics like attitude, value system, fears, emotions, perception and the likes. So they can actually determine the kind of products or services you may like without actually asking you. They get to know from the information they have about you.

Know your target audience
You are certainly beckoning on failure if you don’t know who your business is really meant to satisfy. This is so serious that you may likely not know what size of clothes to buy if you are a clothe dealer. You may not be certain about the kind of technology to adopt if you don’t understand the use if you are into a tech related business. Know your audience and know their need.

Predict customer needs
If you have such big data at your disposal in business, you are capable of predicting what your customers would like and win the heart of clients easily; they will suppose you are trendy. Sometimes businesses test their customer reactions with product or service samples. The outcome actually determines if they will go further in that innovation or not. Sometimes they let prospective client spell out what they wished was available in that business sphere; that’s actually the best way data is used for optimal result in businesses.

Ofcourse there are!! The world in the internet is so large to accommodate a whole lot of career curves plus making the career cycle of computer science undergraduates shorter and fruitful altogether. Indeed I won’t fail to mention that there more than enough websites that can boost the fortune of any undergraduate not just computer science undergraduates.

Although the websites available online may vary with programmes and services which they offer, you too have to decide or be certain of what exactly you need in any website. I can bet you, if you are exposed to a whole of these available opportunities, you will apparently get confused. Some of these websites include freelance websites, project websites, web developers’ online communities, Facebook forums etc.

Web developers’ online communities
Because you are a computer science student and because you would need help if you want to pursue a career in programing or web development, I’d suggest you join a good web developers’ online community. I’m not promising you full time training over there; but am certain that all your questions and confusions will be answers and cleared with time. Websites like Github, Toptal, Stackoverflow, etc. can be of help.

Freelance websites
If you have already groomed yourself in any career curve then freelance website is recommendable. Freelance websites are not overhyped as it may seem; you only need to have the right skill for the right job and the right website.

Social media forums
Social media forums are really cool to progress your career. It will not only help you get in-touch with career mates, you also get to know what’s new and how to adopt them for your career. Platforms like Facebook forums, LinkedIn, Twitter an help a great deal.

Project website
Project websites are not left our either; they provide a whole lot of help to computer science undergraduates from handling contracts of
research materials for students to research agents. Websites like codemint, eduproject, etc can be of help.

One good thing about choosing research project topics in accounting, business and management is that they are limitless. You can extend you research topic as much as possible as long as it’s connected to any of accounting, business or management. This makes choosing a project topic a lot easier especially if you are knowledgeable about other academic field of studies that are business inclined.

As a matter of fact, your research project topic can emanate from taxation, oil and gas, communication, banking, science, administration and more in the list. So, I’m going to give a list of project topics from accounting, business administration and maybe management project topics. Mind you, it’s meant to give you guideline and inspire new project topics from you; I suppose you need it as framework for better and trendy research project topics.

Here we go;
• The impact of monetary policy in controlling inflation in Nigeria

• The role of accounting information management decision making

• Budgeting and Budgetary control in business organization

• Effectiveness of auditing and accountability in Public sector

• Problem and Prospect of financial control tools

Over to business administration project topic ideas

• Effect of management information system on achievement of organization objective

• The effect of advertisement on consumer behavior

• Performance appraisal as a managerial tool for employee performance

• Human resource planning and employees’ performance

• Work-life and employee commitment

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Research project topics in accounting, business and management are very analytical in nature; meaning that choosing a project topic that is related to an issue in arts and humanities does not hinder the statistical aspect of such project.

Moreover, they follow the same research principle, structure and presentation. I will also suggest that you choose a research project that agrees with your area of interest. No matter how much you are overwhelmed with project topics, try not to pick one that will get you choked up in the long run; be sure you understand what it takes before you choose.