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EzeUche:
Hush Femi! You know it is true. It would make since sense if the East gets this project first. Improve the old Enugu to Port Harcourt line.

biina:
Nice work by the guy. Congrats to him.
Seems like a late bloomer as he got an ND first before his BSc. Also, with his profile, would have expected him to be able to pursue his PhD in a more reputable school ( MIT, Stanford, Imperial, etc). He might still be 'under performing' and be capable of much more in the right environment.

Not surprising about the media's neglect of him being Nigerian, thats simply par for the course.

sjeezy8:
blacksta= mechanic

AjanleKoko:
As for Cohn's salary 

The scientist's posting is quite pathetic. Goes to show that over-education itself is overrated and largely a waste of time.
Worked on a project 2 years ago with a German professor of nuclear physics, now doing market segmentation for telcos.

Kobojunkie:
Is it possible to get a link to read more on this particular machine and it's development?

thameamead:
there is a 2-part documentary about LAGOS on BB2 2 next week Thursday.

Superbrain:
@ Sefago,
Thanks. I'm quite confident I'll secure an admit with aid at one of the others. Looks like the financial aid situation is not so good as a result of the recession because two years ago, all admitted PhD candidates received full financial aid at the same school. The amount required for tuition and living expenses ain't so much though. What are you considering as concerns yours?

What can be done? The first thing for any young person (which means anyone who does not have a permanent job in science) to do is to pursue another career. This will spare you the misery of disappointed expectations. Young Americans have generally woken up to the bad prospects and absence of a reasonable middle class career path in science and are deserting it. If you haven't yet, then join them. Leave graduate school to people from India and China, for whom the prospects at home are even worse. I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs.

But on IB drawing the highest salaries, that is a distortion in itself. Imagine if only the guys who worked at Ladbrokes or Silver Sands were paid the highest. IB is getting more like gambling to me. They place bets, hypothetically speaking, on the performance of the companies that are actually doing the innovation.

lekside44:
WHAT DO THE KIDS LEARN IN SCHOOL? is a popular verse from Will Smiths version of just the two of us. it is a pity that we have so many schools in the country today,but many are without aims and objectives. many students go to school today. but ask many why they are in school, you may be suprised that less than 10% knows why they are there.
   learning is meant to be the priority reason, but a lot of people will say because they want to make money and get rich. you try to misbehave in public, people will say, but you said you are educated. why are you misbehaving? if then behaviour is one of the top priority of schools, what can we then say of our own mutallab who went to some of the best schools in the world?
    going to the genesis of school and learning: the time of Aristole and other Greeks philosophers down to Alexander the Great who establish the first university why they did that?
      basically their motives is to know more about nature, human behaiour and the society at large.
  today, we hear a lot of noise on tv, radios and newspaper that the standard of education are falling by the day. i asked what are the standards required and what are the standards we are. what are we meant to be learning and what are we been taught. nairalanders your contributions pls

As far as I am concerned, until the day education goes back to the basics of empowering people for productivity, and not all these glimmer degrees, nothing much will change about the world economy. I was reading a Bizweek interview recently about a billionaire in Brazil. He posited that the US is now behind in the world economy simply because the brightest minds were now working in investment banks, and not engineering companies.

The hyping of MBAs by top notch business schools in a way contributed to the global financial crisis, in my personal opinion. Inexperienced money managers, armed with these glass degrees, played all sorts of roulette with people's livelihoods, and created fictitious wealth for themselves. The result is what we are still suffering today.

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