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Academic and Engineering Job Opportunities for the week ending 24 August

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Ladies and gentlemen, In his inaugural address on January 20, 1961 a great president once said, " If a free society cannot help the many who are poor , it cannot save the few who are rich." What he did not say however was the specific ways those who are poor can be helped. Nor did he qualify the criteria for classifying some as "rich". Sometimes you could be rich in potential but cash poor. After my MSc with a distinction at the University of Surrey I received a phone call from some recruitment agency asking me to come for a job interview in central London. I already had a job but out of interest went to see how such things work. First thing I noticed was that while I was dressed formally a lot of the other people came dress normally. When it was my turn to go in to what I thought was an interview room, I met two gentlemen who essentially wanted me to pay £3000.00 for some training over 3 - 6 months afterwhich I could get a job in IT or so. I was livid and ...

Academic and Engineering Job Opportunities for the week ending 9 August

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Here are the opportunities across international research insitutitions and universities. Good luck in your job search.     Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Materials Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of The Witwatersrand http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGZ829/ Programme Support Tutors Faculty of Science and Engineering Manchester Metropolitan University http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHA023/ Research Associate for the BioEnergy Group Engineering Design & Mathematics University of the West of England, Bristol http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHA277/ Research Associate / Senior Research Associate Maximising capacity in high-speed terabit/s WDM optical transmission systems and networks (3 posts) UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering University College London http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHA288/ Research Assistant School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHA...

Nigerian Lawmakers Top Worlds Best Pay List

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      Paying lawmakers   Nigerian lawmakers have once again topped the world's best pay list in a recent article by the UK based Economist magazine. In terms of absolute salary terms Nigeria's legislators are second only to Australia but ahead of their colleagues from Italy, USA, and Singapore who complete the top 5 most well paid legislators in the world. Although the Australian parliamentarians earn slightly more than their Nigerian counterparts, the Nigerian legislators are not so easily outdone. If the salary is considered in terms of national productivity figures then Nigerian legislators are the undisputed "world champions" earning 116 (one hundred and sixteen) times the country's GDP per person. The Australian, Italian, American and Singaporean legislators salary are respectivley 3, 5.8, 3.8 and 3 times the GDP of their countries.   Despite the relatively high salaries...

Obama investing in Africa - Diary of Nonsoezeoke

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Hello everyone It has been a long time sinceI thought to blog at all. Very busy month. I orally presented two papers at international conferences in A Coruna and Madrid and also took a few days off to Dusseldorf and Amsterdam. The trips were very expensive too although I have just finished turning in the receipts for the official bits in the hope of literally clawing back some of the money. In other news the rise of shale gas and other energy means there will soon be a paradigm shift in Energy politics. America, China, Russia and even England are beginning to develop their unconventional petroleum resources such as shale and bitumen or oil sands. For me as person that ought to be good news as my PhD research is essentially the use of satellites and electromagnetic energy to discover these resources where they exist but as everything in life there will be winners and there will be losers. Being able to win requires "seeing round a corner" as Jack Welch would suggest or ...