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• UNDP Jobs - Project Officer (Tourism Project) at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

  
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  JobTitle:  Project Officer(Tourism Project)Organisation: United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP)Reportsto: Team Leader,Growth and Poverty Reduction ProgrammeDutyStation: Kampala,UgandaAboutUNDP:The Government of Uganda isimplementing the National Development Plan 2010/11-2014/15, which has a visionof ...
  19 hours ago

• 2 Barclays Bank Teller Jobs

  
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  JobTitle: Teller (2Vacancies)  Organisation: Barclays BankJobRef: Teller- MukonoBranch – 00098536JobRef: Teller-Kampala Branch - 00098513DutyStation: Mukono,Kampala, UgandaJobSummary:  TheTellers will be required to give a counter service, local currency andbasic international to Bank customers and ...
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• New language discovery reveals linguistic insights

  
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  A new language has been discovered in a remote Indigenous community in northern Australia that is generated from a unique combination of elements from other languages. Light Warlpiri has been documented by University of Michigan linguist Carmel O’Shannessy, in a study on “The role of multiple sources in the ...
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• NGO Jobs - Programme Officer, Local Accountability at Democratic Governance Facility (DGF)

  
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  JobTitle: Programme Officer, LocalAccountability Organisation: Democratic Governance Facility (DGF)Duty Station: UgandaAboutDGF: A number of InternationalDevelopment Partners in Uganda have established a joint Democratic GovernanceFacility (DGF) to manage a coherent, harmonized and coordinated multi-donorsupport. It ...
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• NARO Jobs - Head Quality Assurance at National Agricultural Research Organisation

  
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  JobTitle: HeadQuality AssuranceOrganisation:National AgriculturalResearch Organisation (NARO)DutyStation: Entebbe, UgandaReports to: Director CorporateServicesAboutNARO: The National AgriculturalResearch Organisation (NARO) is established by the National AgriculturalResearch Act 2005 as a body corporate responsible ...
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• Program Manager, Policy and Advocacy Job at Girls’ Education Movement –Uganda (GEM-U)

  
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  JobTitle: Program Manager, Policy andAdvocacyOrganisation:Girls’ Education Movement–Uganda (GEM-U)DutyStation: Kampala, UgandaAboutGEM-U:GEM-Uganda is a nationalchild and young people development organization that promotes and advocates forthe education of children through arrange of innovative education ...
  2 days ago

• Education Program Manager Job at Girls’ Education Movement –Uganda (GEM-U)

  
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  JobTitle: Education Program ManagerOrganisation:Girls’ EducationMovement –Uganda (GEM-U)DutyStation: Kampala, UgandaAboutGEM-U:GEM-Uganda is a nationalchild and young people development organization that promotes and advocates forthe education of children through arrange of innovative education programmesand ...
  2 days ago

• HR Jobs - Human Resource Manager at Girls’ Education Movement –Uganda (GEM-U)

  
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  JobTitle: Human Resource ManagerOrganisation:Girls’ Education Movement–Uganda (GEM-U)DutyStation: Kampala, UgandaAboutGEM-U:GEM-Uganda is a nationalchild and young people development organization that promotes and advocates forthe education of children through arrange of innovative education programmesand ...
  2 days ago

• Unhealthy buzz with excessive energy drink consumption

  
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  Caffeine and taurine; to tired students cramming for exams it sounds like a winning combination. Health academic Caleb Ferguson, however, is calling for caution as the much lauded energy drinks can carry a number of nasty, and embarrassing, side effects. In the British TV comedy The Inbetweeners, the main character ...
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• What is the best way to measure a researcher’s scientific impact?

  
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  From a qualitative perspective, it’s relatively easy to define a good researcher as one who publishes many good papers. But quantitatively measuring these papers is more complicated, since they can be measured in several different ways. In the past few years, several different metrics have been proposed that ...
  2 days ago

• NGO Social Work Jobs - Director of Programmes at Association of World Education-Uganda National Chapter

  
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  JobTitle:  Director of ProgrammesOrganisation: Association of World Education-UgandaNational Chapter DutyStation: Mbale /Nakapiripirit, UgandaReportsto: National ExecutiveCommitteeAboutAWE-UNC: Association of WorldEducation (AWE Uganda National Chapter) is an autonomous organizationestablished in September 2005 soon ...
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• Advice From Someone Who Knew 16 Languages

  
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  Ten Commandments Kato Lomb.  Draws attention to the fact that most of the languages ​​that had Lomb, she has mastered independently, working exclusively with textbooks and fiction in the target language. His method of learning the language, she outlined in the book “How I learn languages.” The basis of the ...
  4 days ago

• Around the Blogs, Vol. 99

  
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  1. What happens to CEOs who dont want to hand over their customers data to the NSA? (Jason Kottke/John Gilmore) 2. This looks like it might be a useful equation for stratification researchers, if they allowed themselves/dared to use it. (Gregory Cochran) 3. Robin Hanson and Bill Dickens develop a theory of ...
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• Higher State Health Spending Positively Correlates to Higher Obesity Rates, Study Finds

  
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  Americans are gaining weight at an alarming rate, with obesity increasing from 12 percent of the nation’s population in 1990 to 23 percent by 2005, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite an increase in state public health funding to combat these growing rates around the country, obesity ...
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• Vegetable Oil IS Good for You, Researcher Says

  
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  A typical American consumes approximately 3 or more tablespoons of vegetable oil each day. Vegetable oils, like those from soy, corn and canola, are a significant source of calories and are rich in linoleic acid (LA), which is an essential nutrient. Since the 1970s, researchers have known that LA helps reduce blood ...
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• 2 Project Support Officer Jobs at Malaria Consortium

  
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  JobTitle: Project Support Officer (2Vacancies)Organisation: Malaria Consortium (MC)Reportsto: Project ManagerDutyStation: Kampala, UgandaAboutMC:Malaria Consortium is oneof the worlds leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensivecontrol of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and ...
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• Researcher to study, develop public ‘healing spaces’

  
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  A Cornell researcher leads a team that was recently awarded a $750,000 National Open Spaces Sacred Places (OSSP) Award from the TKF Foundation to design, build and research spaces in Joplin, Mo., and in the New York City metropolitan area – that will focus on healing aspects of the human-nature interaction in the ...
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• NGO Jobs - Program Manager at Oxfam International

  
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  JobTitle: Program ManagerOrganisation:Oxfam International DutyStation: Kampala, UgandaAboutOxfam:Oxfam is a worldwideorganisation that employs over 6,000 people in more than 90 countries toovercome poverty and suffering The Organisation is working for a world whereresources and power are distributed more equally and ...
  6 days ago

• Phillip Blond needs to do his research on the impact of British academics

  
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  UK academics arent short of big ideas, argue Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin – and have the evidence to back them up American writer Henry Mencken once noted that there is always an easy solution to every human problem: neat, plausible and wrong. This week, Phillip Blond of the thinktank ResPublica outlined ...
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• CULTURE | Calling All Sacred Activists! A New Series Just For You

  
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  North Atlantic Books is pleased to announce the launch of a new Sacred Activism series this Fall in collaboration with bestselling author of The Hope and Sacred Activism Institute founder Andrew Harvey , featuring visionary voices for a positive transformation. Sacred Activism Series Mission Statement: When ...
  6 days ago

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