Article: Thesis casts shadow

A report into Joel Hayward's controversial 1993 Holocaust thesis is due to be publicly released today. Whatever the result, the University of Canterbury faces embarrassing questions about its examination procedures, concludes SEAN SCANLON.

I n May this year the University of Canterbury took the unprecedented step of establishing a working party to investigate a master's degree it awarded six years ago.

The working party was assigned to investigate the first-class master's degree awarded to controversial Massey University historian Dr Joel Hayward.

Dr Hayward's thesis questions key historical assumptions about the Holocaust inflicted on the Jewish people during World War 2.

The working ...

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