In this course the student will be cast in the role of a practicing statistician and become involved in projects within many fields of applications. Each of the selected projects has to be written in a report, some of which will be presented orally at seminars.  Some presentations may be done jointly with other students.  These are important aspects in the training of a practicing statistician, who must be able to present findings in a concise, but lucid manner, which can be, understood even by non-statisticians.  The reports are continuously assessed, each project being graded and returned quickly. Some of the projects are designed to illustrate basic statistical techniques from various courses and methods and to introduce the use of the statistical packages MINITAB, GLIM, PLUM, GENSTAT AND SPSS.  Others may be more open-ended or require more specialist techniques. The course opens with one or two non-assessed exercises designed to make the student familiar with the computing facilities.