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Participants at the January 2010 APTS week |
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The Academy for PhD Training in Statistics is a collaboration between nine major UK statistics research groups (at Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Glasgow, Lancaster, Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton and Warwick) to organise courses for first-year PhD students in statistics and applied probability nationally. For its first five years of operation APTS is supported by EPSRC, and this support includes funds to cover the cost of participation by EPSRC-funded students.
The intention of APTS is to provide courses which will be attractive and relevant to the research preparation and background education of all UK PhD students in statistics and probability. APTS is open also to students from institutions outside the UK.
How it works (in brief)
APTS organises four residential weeks of training each year, with two intensive course modules per APTS week. Each APTS week requires preparatory work by students; and APTS students are typically required by their home department to complete short assessment tasks afterwards. Registration for APTS is in two stages:
- departments with PhD programmes register as APTS "sending institutions";
- sending institutions register their PhD students with APTS in September/October each year.
Departments can, in addition, commit to a level of participation which qualifies for APTS Member Institution status. (A Member Institution is automatically registered as a "sending institution".) All of this is described fully in the APTS Constitution  document, the Module Specifications document, and in the more detailed web pages linked on the left.
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