Letter: David Hencke obituary
Before his arrival at the Guardian, the journalist David Hencke worked for the Times Higher Education Supplement. In 1975, he got to hear of a new professional training course for...
By Les Bright · The Guardian Opinion
Before his arrival at the Guardian, the journalist David Hencke worked for the Times Higher Education Supplement. In 1975, he got to hear of a new professional training course for community and youth workers at Bulmershe College of Higher Education, which became part of Reading University. The prospectus boasted that it would employ a community development approach and offer students a “self-generating curriculum”. Within two weeks of starting the course I was part of a small group that spent a morning being probed by David about the demands that would be placed on participants, and invited to offer opinions on how we would change the world. Continue reading...