UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL: LLD: Miles Walker, chief minister of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man.
MSc: Chris Boardman, cyclist and North-west ministerial adviser for sport and vice-president of the North-west Sports Aid Foundation.
CITY UNIVERSITY
DCL: Gordon Slynn, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
DLitt: Julia Neuberger, rabbi and chairman of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust.
DMus: Jane Glover, principal conductor of the London Choral Society and the Huddersfield Choral Society.
DSc: Alistair Cumming, managing director of British Airways Engineering; Nigel Horne, technology partner at KPMG Peat Marwick; Alan Gillett, member of the University Council; Charles Gough, chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council; Elizabeth Nelson, market research founder of Taylor Nelson AGB, chief executive of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers, chairman of the Eco-Labelling Board and non-executive director of the Royal Bank of Scotland; Wen-Shiong Tsung, director of the National Institute for the Blind of Taiwan.
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND
Honorary doctorates have been awarded to: Christine Kenrick, chair of Birmingham Women's Hospital Trust and the Birmingham Settlement; Roy Hattersley, MP and former deputy leader of the Labour Party and shadow chancellor of the exchequer; Rosemary Thomson, chairman of the Magistrates' Association; Peter Ellwood, chief executive of the TSB Group.
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE
DCL: King Harald of Norway.
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
On February 17, the following honorary LLD degrees should have been recorded as follows: Winifred Ewing, Member of the European Parliament; Marion Fraser, chair of Christian Aid and HM commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.