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In the New Year, CSI, 10 PhD scholarships to Oxford University .... Academic and Engineering Job Opportunities for the week ending 10 January 2014

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Hello everyone, It is almost a week in to the new year. How time flies? Someone said, "how you begin a thing matters". Among my favourite television shows (perhaps I would say the only series I watch, if it would not make me seem pitiable!) is the Crime Scene Investigation or CSI. It typically starts with some exotic scene such as a party, a scream and someone is discovered knocked off without their shoes. The next 45 minutes you are glued to the edge of your seat wondering who killed who and what happened to those shoes. The way we start is important not just how we end. The funny thing about time transitions and by this I refer to seasons, days, weeks, months and years is that each epoch starts where the other has left off. Unless you determine to do something different nothing will change. Great success does not happen by accident. We may live in different countries but we all have the same amount of time. We may speak different languages but we know success when we s...

Mandela....Academic and Engineering Job Opportunities for the week ending 13 December 2013

Ladies and gentlemen, It is barely three weeks to the end of the year. Last week saw an international outpouring of grief over the death of Nelson Rohlila Mandela a global icon of forgiveness and reconciliation. So much has been said about this great African and Nobel Prize winner that it would be futile for me to say any more. Therefore this weeks blog will pass on a few of his own quotes and a few words from current world leaders and then finally a searing question. In Mandela's Words "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew that if I did not leave bitterness and hatred behind, I would still be in prison".  "It always seems impossible until it is done!". "If you want to make peace with your enemy then you have to work with your enemy then he becomes your partner" "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he ...