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Age of Innovation ... Academic Scholarships and Engineering Job Opportunities for the week ending 24 January 2014

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My goodness I am shooting from the hip here but if truth be told, there is a lot happening in life and it breaks my heart when people are unable to see the opportunities that are right there before them. Perhaps it is because of my sad experience searching high and low for funding to pursue my own dreams or maybe it is because I firmly believe that everyone deserves a decent stab at life. No one should be left behind on the road to fulfillment, success and achievement but we must retain hope in the face of despair or else we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  In this age of innovation it is clear that those are ill equipped will miss out on the future. Innovation may be the elixir of progress but it has always cost people their jobs. In the last 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned the 20th-centurey middle-clas life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers, filling station attendants (at least in the West and developed As...

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...