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If you wish to join me as a postgraduate student, then send an email to t.moors AT unsw.edu.au with the subject line "new student" and include:

1. your resume/CV emphasising your experience in networking,
2. a list of your areas of interest, and an indication of which of my areas of interest you are also interested in.
3. your contact details (email, post, phone, and time (Australian Eastern time) of day when you can be contacted by phone).
4. information about which program/course you wish do under my supervision (e.g. 1640: PhD or TELE4910 (thesis part A for BE in Telecommunications)).
5. an indication of how you intend to finance your studies. Unfortunately, irrespective of the best intellectual intentions, money does matter. Please indicate your citizenship/residency status (since this affects the availability of Australian scholarships and tuition fees) and what, if any, scholarship you expect to receive. See below for more about available scholarships.
6. your academic record(s):
   • a copy of your academic record (in English) for each institution that you have attended, including grades for all subjects, expressed as percentiles wherever possible. The academic record should also indicate the weighting of the subjects that you have done, and a weighted average, e.g. Grade Point Average or Weighted Average Mark.
   • if you have studied at UNSW, then include a copy of your record from New South Student
   • if your academic record includes courses done at non-Australian institutions, then try to unambiguously identify the institution (e.g. by providing a URL, e.g. www.unsw.edu.au) and provide some URLs pointing to the ranking of the institution, e.g.
     • Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) rankings
     • Shanghai Jaio Tong rankings
     • National Research Council or Business Review (for US)
     • Asiaweek (for Asia)
     Yes, rankings are frought with danger, but they are a starting point when there is little else to go by.
   • results of any generic tests that you might have done, e.g. Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Universities Admission Index (UAI).
7. evidence of your communication skills:
   • a copy of a technical report (preferably on a networking topic) that you wrote yourself that shows evidence of your communication skills.
   • results of any tests of your communication skills, e.g. Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
8. A couple of paragraphs describing why you want to do a PhD. You may also want to write a few paragraphs describing a potential topic.

You may be interested in the list of projects that I have on offer.

A parable about choosing a thesis supervisor.

Scholarships

Australian/University Postgraduate Awards (APAs/UPAs) are available to Australian citizens or Permanent Residents. Details are available at http://www.scholarships.unsw.edu.au/apaupainfo.html .
Competitiveness: "Previous recipients all held degrees of Honours 1 standard or equivalent."
Deadlines of Oct. 31 for session 1, and Apr. 30 for session 2.First round notifications are usually made in mid-December.

Citizens and PRs are also eligible to apply for Faculty of Engineering Research Scholarship http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/prospect/pgres/resschol.htm with deadlines of Nov. 30 and Jun. 30.

UNSW/CSIRO Research Scholarship (local cache)

Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRSs) and University International Postgraduate Awards (UIPAs) are "open to citizens of all overseas countries". Details are available at http://www.grs.unsw.edu.au/scholarships/endeavourawards.html , including deadlines of Aug. 31 for session 1, and Apr. 30 for session 2. (Competitiveness: for UIPAs in 2005: "The budget allows for about ten offers for Session 2 this year.")

Some additional scholarships are available to students from particular countries, e.g. the Australia-Pakistan Scholarships Program (APSP) which is on offer between 2006-2010.

Furthermore, top-up scholarships (to the level of about $8-10k) are available from the Faculty of Engineering (known as a Supplementary Engineering Award (SEA)) to supplement the above scholarships.

Scholarships for PhD students are available through National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Australia (NICTA). These take the form of base scholarships (NICTA Local and International Postgraduate Awards - NLPA and NIPA) and supplementary scholarships (NICTA Research Project Award - NRPA).

An article "Big dreams need grant plans" by Julie Summers appeared in The Australian on September 07, 2005, and outlines some alternative sources of support (though none are specific to our area, and there are no silver bullets.)

What you're getting yourself into

• sign a declaration stating that any work that you submit for assessment or publication is original, apart from content that has been properly referenced, and does not infringe any copyrights.
• submit an electronic version of any reports or source code (which must be well documented) that can be made available on UNSW web pages.
• sign a declaration giving your supervisor the right to publish, with you, work done on your thesis and publish the source code through UNSW web pages.
• beware that for some projects that have industry sponsorship, you may need to sign a non-disclosure agreement provided by the sponsor.