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orthy of a doctorate from a major University is, of course, a triumph for each of the thirty individuals who are now allowed to wear the Cambridge doctoral style crimson academic robe with faculty colour facings and a ‘mazarin blue shot red silk’ 42 hood of the University of Wales. 43 We salute each one of them. However, what must not be forgotten is the work of supporting the research and writing, not only of the supervisory team, but the immense task of registering, reviewing and updating records, of ensuring University administrative reporting and reviewing requirements are fully met so that there might be no impediment to the successful outcome of study. Administration and Quality Assurance The small institution which was IBTS always had to meet every administrative, regulatory, and academic criterion of larger institutions. This heavy workload was overseen by four successive Academic Deans who gave unstintingly of their time to ensure all was done decently and in good order, whilst carrying research and teaching loads within their own domain. Davor Peterlin commenced this work, having completed doctoral studies in Aberdeen with the renowned New Testament scholar, I. Howard Marshall. Ian Randall continued in this tradition and alongside this role, in addition to supervision and teaching, had an amazing output of articles and books on a diverse range of Baptist and evangelical history. Parush Parushev brought to the task his experience in the world of mathematics and biomechanics. Drawing on this background in Bulgaria and Russia he developed a comprehensive policy for managing and recording the research work of each student, focused around the ground-breaking research colloquium held each January in Praha and now in Amsterdam. 44 These established practices were continued by Lina Andronoviene 45 when he assumed the Rectorship in 2013. The work of registration and academic management of the paper flow associated with the doctoral programme has rested with three individuals: Antonija Lucic, Lydia Kucova and Norbert Csenyi, all academics in their 42 Description taken from Shaw’s Academic Dress of Great Britain and Ireland , ed. by Nicholas Groves, 3 rd edn (London: Burgon Society, 2001), p. 410. 43 Many of our graduates wear this academic dress with pride in the institutions where they now teach on appropriate occasions such as commencement, graduation day and the like and their images can be found on social media. 44 This paper is being completed even as social media records the travel of students from Australia, Canada, central Asia, and every part of Europe to the 2017 International Colloquium in the Baptist House, Amsterdam. 45 Now the Revd Dr Lina Toth, Assistant Principal of the Scottish Baptist College, University of the West of Scotland. 20 Journal of European Baptist Studies 17:1 (2017) own right and at various points students of IBTS. To them fell the task of completion of docu