Talk:Research assistant

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NB: A note from personnel services at Oxford: "The university has both research assistant posts as well as research officer posts, and the department usually decides on the job title to reflect the duties and the grade of the post."

Middle paragraph - is this intended to be US-specific? In the UK, many research assistantships do _not_ have the possibility of doing a higher degree tagged on to them - apart from anything, some last as little as six months, and not all of research assistant jobs involve work that would be suitable for shaping into a thesis. The job does not last as long as the thesis takes - the thesis-chasing is constrained by (among other things) the duration of the contract. Regards, Notreallydavid 04:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I have been trying to find information regarding who set the guidelines or regulations to hire research assistantships at graduate level. e.g. How many hours are they allowed to work? Where can I have support this information from? any federal organization?

What about PDRA ("Postdoctoral Research Assistants")? I am neither junior nor underpaid. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.153.139.126 (talk) 16:18, 25 February 2008 (UTC)