Hi Guys,

Long time since I was last here.

Now, kindly, I seek your thoughts on something, a business opportunity.

A friend of mine is considering doing an interesting business: helping masters students in their resarch works. He is not sure if he can make money from this; he is also not very sure if people out there are doing this kind of "business", so to call it.

Ok, he has the qualifications to do a good job in his line of specialization. He sees that there are so many students doing masters and their supervisors are so busy .... he thought he could help as a form of business.

He will be effectively working as a consultant: helping the student do a good proposal, getting time to read the stuff and make improvements, guiding the students in the research itself, reading the completed reports, etc.

But he does not plan to do the project for the student, of course. He thinks that with the specialist nature of the work, he could have a niche.

Any thoughts?

Thanks a lot.

I don't think he will fair well coz he will be offering less than what is already in the market. Guys are doing the entire work from proposal to the dissert.

agreed. For 80k all the work is done for you.

Surprising news!!

Didnt know that the entire work is done from proposal to the report itself!

That is bad.

My friend is to address the following issues without doing the project for the student:

(a). Find time to work with the student to refine the proposal;

(b). Be available to read the reports and respond in time on the key issues to improve on.

(c). Work with the student to prepare for defending the document.

Traditional supervisors now have no time at all and most students have a full-time job that keeps them very busy.

Thanks gentlemen for the thoughts.

I see the bear hasn't taken away your sense of humour.