SINGA PhD Awards for International Students in Singapore, 2017

Up to 240 SINGA Awards are given every year to top students from all over the world. Awards are available for pursuing PhD studies either at National University of Singapore (NUS) or Nanyang Technological University (NTU) or the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

They want to encourage more such exchanges, to build friendships and mutual understanding. This is why they are introducing a new Singapore International Graduate Award (or SINGA), for international students to do their PhD training in a multi-disciplinary environment in Singapore. 240 SINGA Awards will be given every year to top students from all over the world.

The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). PhD training will be carried out in English at your chosen lab at A*STAR Research Institutes, NTU, NUS or SUTD. Students will be supervised by distinguished and world-renowned researchers in these labs.

International students with a passion for Science and Engineering research, excellent academic qualifications, good reports from academic referees, and fluency in English are encouraged to apply for this award. TOEFL, IELTS and GRE are NOT required. However, applicants may indicate their scores in the online application form if they have already taken any of these tests. If applicants are invited for an interview, the selection panel will assess your command of spoken and written English during the interview. The selection process will not be biased against candidates without GRE, TOEFL or IELTS.

Course Level: Awards are available for pursuing PhD studies either at National University of Singapore (NUS) or Nanyang Technological University (NTU) or the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

Study Subject(s): SINGA only supports PhD studies in the field of science and engineering.
Scholarship Award: The award provides financial support for up to 4 years of PhD studies. It includes:
– Full support of tuition fees
– Stipends – S$2,000 per month (S$24,000 per annum), to be increased to S$2,500 per month (S$30,000 per annum) after passing Qualifying Examinations
– One-time S$1,000 settling-in allowance
– One-time airfare grant of S$1,500

Scholarship can be taken at: Singapore

Eligibility: To be eligible to apply:
-Open to all international students
-Graduates with a passion for research and excellent academic results
-Good skills in written and spoken English
-Good reports from academic referees

Nationality: International students can apply for these SINGA Awards.

College Admission Requirement

Entrance Requirement: International students with a passion for Science and Engineering research, excellent academic qualifications, good reports from academic referees, and fluency in English are encouraged to apply for this award.

Test Requirement: No

English Language Requirements: TOEFL, IELTS and GRE are NOT required. However, applicants may indicate their scores in the online application form if they have already taken any of these tests. If they are invited for an interview, the selection panel will assess your command of spoken and written English during the interview. The selection process will not be biased against candidates without GRE, TOEFL or IELTS.

Singapore Scholarships

Supporting Material: Softcopies of the following supporting documents must be uploaded during their online application:Compulsory:
–Identity card or Passport
-A recent passport-sized photo in JPEG/PNG format
-Bachelor’s Academic Transcripts (in English translation)
-Bachelor’s Degree Certificate / Scroll (in English translation) or a letter of certification from the university on their candidature if their degree certificate / scroll has not yet been conferred
-Master’s Academic Transcripts, if any (in English translation)
-Master’s Degree Certificate / Scroll, if any (in English translation) or a letter of certification from the university on their candidature if their degree certificate / scroll has not yet been conferred
-2 recommendation reports (to be completed and submitted online by the referees)

How to Apply: Applicant will first need to fill up an online application form and submit it through the SINGA website.

Online Application

Application Deadline: The application deadline is 1 June 2016 for August 2016 intake.

Scholarship Link

This stranger changed my children’s life - Read story

i still can’t  get over what this lady did to my children and sharing this story I am sure will help several parents out there…Letting strangers into my home is one thing I usually watch but for this lady it was a different case. I think that was about 2years ago she said she had been asked to come see me. Immediately I placed a call through to my husband and he confirmed it so I let her. This was the beginning of the turn-around.

I have a set of beautiful 9 year old twins (male and female) and raising them has been tough, every mother would love to have set of twins but their upkeep is one uphill task. Twins are a real handful. The male one Peterson was excessively shy, he would hardly talk even at home and it was so worrisome.  I would try to teach him things and he would say he understood but when I asked questions he would not respond. Thankfully, my daughter Deborah was the opposite but her hatred for mathematics was legendary and without Mathematics, how would she pass the common entrance exams?

Peterson was 16th position in a class of 22 students for 2 years, I had attended various Parent Teacher association meetings, met with the teacher personally and even tried to help him myself all to no avail. Little did I know that meeting this stranger Mrs.Clara would mark a turning point in the performance of my kids. 

Mrs.Clara was the tutor sent from Prepclassan academic solutions provider in Lagos. I had heard about them from a source I really can’t remember at this point and apparently so had my husband and even some other family friends we felt they might be able to help our kids. Clara had 8years experience as a teacher and private tutor. She was familiar with the Nigerian and British curriculum as well as the Montessori method of teaching which is most acceptable nowadays.
Sincerely, there was no significant change in the performance of my kids for the first month, but the woman was very diligent, professional, punctual and cheerful. By the second month I had a meeting with her and she revealed to me something shocking. Peterson was being bullied in school and that was one of the major reasons he had developed a shy personality and did not act as lively as most boys his age. 

Mrs. Clara was kind enough to follow me to the school, we investigated and found it was true and that matter was resolved immediately.
Peterson started to improve as the improvement was quite noticeable, her method of teaching was radically different from anything I had seen and I knew that was because the classes were just between a tutor and 2 students, they would discuss, do class activities, and do home works together. She had a lot of time to study and understand the kids and teach them severalmnemonics to aid easy understanding. By the third month I knew my kids were improving, they had even started studying together during leisure hours rather than doing other things and to my surprise it was Peterson teaching his twin Deborah mathematics, they both bragged about the new things they learned and thus shared knowledge.

Getting a prepclass tutor was one of the best my husband and I made for my children last year. My kids improved radically. The 1st term results came out and my son was 6th, my daughter also went up in class by the term after that they were both in top 3 of their class. Beyond the rise in the grades, I was amazed at the passion they developed for studying.

When my husband and I were to decide which secondary school they would go to, we were confused because their academic performance had quickly opened up so many opportunities that didn’t exist before, they got some massive recognition. Their common entrance results were the best in their school, they were applying for scholarships at prestigious secondary schools. I was overwhelmed with Joy, you all know how a mother with this kind of story will feel 

Getting a teacher from the school was an option but getting someone with a totally different technique really helped.Getting a tutor has never been easier than using Prepclass tutors.

Simply fill their home tutor request form here .They take extra pain in ensuring that they understand your needs, a client relationship officer will visit you to understand what your expectations are and determine the kind of tutor that would be capable of fulfilling your expectation. In our case, they got us a professional female tutor who lives close by, had a lot of exposure and experience and Prepclass was constantly providing support in regard to curriculum and even materials for the tutors.

They can be easily reached ?
Simply call 01-2913790 or08059811502. Click here to get a tutor from them today. You can drop by at their new office which is on the 3rd floor 315 Herbert Macualay Road Yaba Lagos.

Do you need a  tutor in lagos for your child who is having academic/learning difficulties, for exam preparation, language learning, skill/music learning etc?Prepclass has over 15,000 tutors in Lagos alone who can handle any level of subject complexity and bring out the very best in your child.

DAAD Scholarships For Germany for 2017-2018

Applicants are invited for DAAD scholarships from developing countries’ students. The scholarships are available for pursuing a postgraduate degree at German institutions of Higher education.

With its development-oriented postgraduate study programmes, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from development and newly industrialised countries.

The DAAD supports over 100,000 German and international students und researchers around the globe each year – making it the world’s largest funding organisation of its kind.

The last academic degree (usually a Bachelor’s degree) should have been completed no longer than six years previously.

Course Level: Scholarships are available to pursue a postgraduate degree at a state or state-recognised German university, and in exceptional cases to take a doctoral degree, and to obtain a university qualification (Master’s/PhD) in Germany.

Study Subject(s): DAAD Scholarships are awarded for pursuing development-related postgraduate courses

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Scholarship Award: Scholarship includes:
-Depending on academic level, monthly payments of 750 euros for graduates or 1,000 euros for doctoral candidates
-Payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover
-Travel allowance, unless these expenses are covered by the home country or another source of funding

Scholarship can be taken at: Germany

Eligibility: Scholarship criteria is:
-Graduates with at least two years’ professional experience
-Candidates fulfil the necessary academic requirements and can be expected to successfully complete a study programme in Germany (above-average result for first academic exam – top performance third, language skills)
-Candidates have a Bachelor degree (usually a four-year course) in an appropriate subject
-Candidates have at least two years’ professional experience
-Candidates can prove their motivation is development-related and be expected to take on social responsibility and initiate and support processes of change in their personal and professional environment after their training/scholarship

Nationality: Students (on the DAC List of the OECD) from following developing countries can apply:

List of Subjects: Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Rep., Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and Belarus; North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ivory Coast (Côte D’Ivoire), Djibouti, Eritrea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Kenya, Comoros, Congo, Congo, Dem. Rep., Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zambia, Sâo Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Somalia, St. Helena, Sudan, South Africa, Southern Sudan (new), Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Chad, Uganda and Central African Republic; North and Central America: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago; South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Columbia, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela; Near and Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian territories and Syria; South and Central Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; East Asia: China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, East Timor and Vietnam. OCEANIA: Cooki Oslands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna

College Admission Requirement

Entrance Requirement: The last academic degree (usually a Bachelor’s degree) should have been completed no longer than six years previously.

Test Requirement: No

English Language Requirements: Depending on chosen study programme; please check scholarship brochure or the website of applicants chosen study programme.

Developing Countries

Supporting Material: Required documents (in the following order):
-DAAD application form
-hand-signed CV
-hand-signed letter of motivation (with reference to current occupation)
-research exposé (if required by university)
-academic letter/s of recommendation from your university; the letter must have a signature and office stamp and must be of recent date (not in a sealed envelope)
-professional letter/s of recommendation from your employer; the letter must have a signature and office stamp and must be of recent date (not in a sealed envelope)
-confirmation of employment from the employer in your home country and if possible, a guarantee of re-employment upon your return home
-Proof of language abilities
– English – IELTS or TOEFL (Note: Institutional TOEFL will not be accepted)
– German – necessary for the courses taught in German; for the courses taught in English, if available
– copies of awarded academic degrees
– copies of academic transcripts
– copy of School Leaving Certificate
-Note: Some courses may require additional documents. For detailed information, please see the relevant course description on the following pages. All documents must be submitted as identical duplicates.

How to Apply: The mode of applying is by post or electronically.

Application form

Applications Deadlines: Depending on chosen study programme; please check deadlines here.

Scholarship Link

Bangladeshi university professor hacked to death in Rajshahi

A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to a number of killings of secular bloggers and atheist activists in the past months.

AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi University in the west of the country.

He was attacked with machetes by unidentified assailants while on his way to the university from his home.

Last year, four prominent secular bloggers were killed with machetes.

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Deputy police commissioner Nahidul Islam told AFP news agency that Siddique had been involved in cultural programmes, and had set up a school at Bagmara, a former bastion of outlawed Islamist group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Members of JMB were arrested over an assault on an Italian Catholic priest late last year.

Earlier this month a Bangladeshi law student who had expressed secular views online died when he was hacked with machetes and then shot in the capital, Dhaka.

The four bloggers killed last year had all appeared on a list of 84 "atheist bloggers" drawn up by Islamic groups in 2013 and widely circulated.

There have also been attacks on members of religious minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus. And two foreigners, an Italian aid worker and a Japanese man, were also shot dead late last year, in seemingly random attacks.

The so-called Islamic State group has said it carried out many of the attacks - but this has not been independently verified.

Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government has failed to properly address the attacks.

Nigerian Scholar solves 156-Year-old problem in Maths

Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria (Vanguard) — The 156 years old Riemann Hypothesis, the most important problem in Mathematics has been successfully solved by Nigeria Scholar, Dr Opeyemi Enoch.

With this breakthrough, Dr Enoch, who teaches at the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), has become the fourth egghead to resolve one of the seven Millennium Problems in Mathematics.

The Kogi State-born mathematician had, before now, worked on mathematical models and structures for generating electricity from sound, thunder and Oceanic bodies.

A statement in Ado Ekiti yesterday said Dr Enoch presentation of the Proof on November 11, 2015 during the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna, Austria becomes more symbolic coming on the exact day and month 156 years after the problem was delivered by a German Mathematician in 1859.

The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis is one of the seven Millennium problems set forth by the Clay Mathematics Institute with a million Dollar reward for each solved problem for the past 16 years.

According to the statement, “Dr Enoch first investigated and then established the claims of Riemann. He went on to Consider and to correct the misconceptions that were communicated by Mathematicians in the past generations, thus paving way for his solutions and proofs to be established.

“He also showed how other problems of this kind can be formulated and obtained the matrix that Hilbert and Poly predicted will give these undiscovered solutions. He revealed how these solutions are applicable in cryptography, quantum information science and in quantum computers,” it stated.

Three of the problems had been solved and the prizes given to the winners. This makes it the fourth to be solved of all the seven problems.

Dr Enoch had previously designed a Prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and also discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission.

Enoch has succeeded in inventing methods by which oil pipelines can be protected from vandalism and he is currently working on Mathematical approaches to Climate Change.

Riemann hypothesis

In his 1859 paper On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude Riemann found an explicit formula for the number of primes π(x) less than a given number x. His formula was given in terms of the related function

which counts the primes and prime powers up to x, counting a prime power pn as 1/n of a prime. The number of primes can be recovered from this function by

where μ is the Möbius function. Riemann’s formula is then

where the sum is over the nontrivial zeros of the zeta function and where Π0 is a slightly modified version of Π that replaces its value at its points of discontinuity by the average of its upper and lower limits:

The summation in Riemann’s formula is not absolutely convergent, but may be evaluated by taking the zeros ρ in order of the absolute value of their imaginary part. The function Li occurring in the first term is the (unoffset) logarithmic integral function given by the Cauchy principal value of the divergent integral

The terms Li(xρ) involving the zeros of the zeta function need some care in their definition as Li has branch points at 0 and 1, and are defined (for x > 1) by analytic continuation in the complex variable ρ in the region Re(ρ) > 0, i.e. they should be considered as Ei(ρ ln x). The other terms also correspond to zeros: the dominant term Li(x) comes from the pole at s = 1, considered as a zero of multiplicity −1, and the remaining small terms come from the trivial zeros. For some graphs of the sums of the first few terms of this series see Riesel & Göhl (1970) or Zagier (1977).

This formula says that the zeros of the Riemann zeta function control the oscillations of primes around their “expected” positions. Riemann knew that the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function were symmetrically distributed about the line s = 1/2 + it, and he knew that all of its non-trivial zeros must lie in the range 0 ≤ Re(s) ≤ 1. He checked that a few of the zeros lay on the critical line with real part 1/2 and suggested that they all do; this is the Riemann hypothesis.

5 types of food you should not eat after 7pm (photos)

 – The food consumed by Nigerians are eaten at different times of the day

 – There are different types of food which should not be eaten at particular period of the day 

– Some people visit the toilet more than normal after eating foods which are urine-inducing in nature especially at night
People basically believe food should be taken in the morning, afternoon and in the evening. However, there is no scientific finding, which states clearly it is compulsory to eat only three times in a day. What a good number of nutritionists agree upon is that, if someone is not fasting, someone should take his breakfast, early in the morning and latest between 9-10am. While lunch should be taken between 12-2pm.

Dinner or supper is eaten at different time by people. It is also not advisable to eat supper late at night. Dinner is best eaten around 7pm and latest 8pm. The reason for this, is that there are some foods, when eaten late at night in high quantity, may make a person not to enjoy his night rest, as these foods could lead to constipation the following morning or frequent urinating at night. 

Some of these foods are given below:

1. Pounded yam 

Pounded yam is a food common in states like Ekiti, Ondo, Osun and even among the Igbos. Some Hausas also love it. It is one of the foods most people asked for when they go to Bukateria, especially if those people lovestraditional delicacies. The health challenge of eating pounded yam late at night is that, it could lead to constipation. It could also make someone to become very heavy, and also not willing to do any work. It induces sleep. It is better to eat it in the afternoon.

2. Amala 

They Yorubas eat Amala a lot. It is a product of grinded dry yam. Basically, yam powder is the raw form of Amala. Amala is gotten when the yam powder is added to hot boiling water and stirred for some minutes inside a pot. This food is one of the most urine-inducing foods, when eaten late at night. Although, it digests easily, however it makes someone urinate more than often.

3. Bread 

Bread is one of the most eaten food in Nigeria. It is eaten mostly by students and artisans. It comes next after rice, as one of the staple foods mostly eaten by Nigerians. Eating much beans late at night, could lead to a situation that makes defaecating a bit more difficult, when someone wakes up the morning after the bread was taken.

4. Beans

 Also known as cowpea. Beans are of different types. It is commonly eaten with bread, which makes someone that eats both combination drink a lot of water. If someone eats so much beans at night, the end result is going to be constipation, as beans is a very heavy protein food.

5. Custard/pap

 Pap is made from maize. It is better to drink pap in the morning. Although Muslims drink pap a lot during Ramadan fast, which acts as a sort of fluid-adding food. However, it is often taken in the morning by a good number of people. The Yorubas called it ‘Ogi.’ It is called ‘Koko’ by Hausas, while Igbos call it ‘Agidi.’