Objectives

There are two principal objectives of a project, which should be seen as of equal priority:

• To exercise and extend academic skills.
  It should thus in normal circumstances clearly be associated with the appropriate programme, and should provide the student with a view of the context of (a part of) the discipline. This may be achieved by explicitly exploiting particular (and named) skills or appropriate information acquired from taught modules. The academic aim here is to achieve understanding by doing.
• To exercise and extend professional and transferable skills.
  It should test a student's ability to schedule, research, organise, report and present within the context of a specialist area. Thus it is assessed, major (compared to coursework), individual and (often/usually) without a set answer.