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Article: Thesis casts shadow
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- The Press
- Article date:
- December 20, 2000
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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 ...