TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS IN STATISTICS
MASSEY UNIVERSITY, NEW ZEALAND
The Statistics Group at Massey University, Palmerston
North, New Zealand has available a number of Teaching
Assistantships to support students studying for a
higher degree (including PhD, Masters and Honours
year) in Statistics in 2007. Applications are invited
from both domestic and overseas students.
The normal appointment is a 1/2 Graduate Teaching
Assistantship, which requires approximately 5 hours
work per week, for a salary of NZ$11,956 and 50%
payment of tuition fees for all New Zealand, Australian,
French and German students, and all PhD students. A
full appointment at double these levels may be possible
in exceptional circumstances.
Teaching duties during the academic teaching year will
include supervision of laboratory classes, conducting
tutorials, marking assignments, and the general
support of Statistics teaching staff.
POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
The Statistics Group has available funding to supply
top-up scholarships to outstanding applicants.
Enquiries should be directed to Professor Martin
Hazelton (contact details given below).
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Statistics Group comprises 12 permanent academic
staff, with a wide variety of research interests.
Particular strengths of the Group include nonparametric
smoothing, biostatistics, official statistics, statistical
reliability and stochastic modelling in geophysics.
The Group is based within the Institute of Information
Sciences and Technology (http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/)
at the Massey University's Turitea campus in Palmerston
North, New Zealand. Massey Palmerston North is one of
New Zealand's leading universities with particular
strengths in the life sciences, agricultural,
horticultural and veterinary teaching and research.
The city of Palmerston North is the fourth largest on
New Zealand's North Island. It has the wealth of
facilities you would expect to find in a major city,
yet it is compact, friendly and accessible.
ENQUIRIES AND APPLICATIONS
All enquiries should be directed to Professor
Martin Hazelton (telephone 06-350 5799 extn 2483,
fax 06-350 2261, e-mail [log in to unmask]).
For information on the formal application process,
please see http://jobs.massey.ac.nz/. The job reference
code is A414-06S.
The closing date for applications for the Teaching
Assistantships is 21 January 2007.
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