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Several Universities have recently advertised vacant MSc EPSRC studentships in Statistics. This year, for the SECOND year running, a first class student from Warwick will be paying for herself to do the MSc in Applied Statistics at Oxford because they have insufficient studentships. I expect many will say: why does she not go elsewhere? However, for a first class student with knowledge of SPLUS and an interest in a career in applying statistics, Oxford is clearly an excellent choice. Professor Ripley is very actively involved in the teaching of the programme. If the statistical community is at all interested in the education of the next generation, then I suggest that those with power and influence should use that influence to alter the current distribution of studentships. R J Reed --------------------------------------------------------------------------- R J Reed [log in to unmask] Department of Statistics University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL United Kingdom Telephone: 01203-523062 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%