Honorary degrees

University of Glasgow

DD: Ernest Best, emeritus professor of divinity and biblical criticism and noted authority on the Gospel of St Mark.

DEng: George Bennett, general manager of Motorola and corporate vice president; Bruno Thurlimann, emeritus professor of structural engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

DSc: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, professor of physics at the Open University, discoverer of pulsars; Mary Hodges, medical director of St Andrews Clinics for Children, Sierra Leone.

DUniv: Jan Wladyslaw Stepek, benefactor to the university and merchant; Luis Giay, president of Rotary International and member of the professional council of economic sciences in Buenos Aires.

LLD: Alexander Mackay Irvine, lord chancellor; Richard Goldstone, member of the constitutional court of South Africa and UN prosecutor; Sanford Fox, professor of law, Boston College Law School, Massachusetts.

Cranfield University

MBA Honoris Causa: Eddie George, governor of the Bank of England; Colin Marshall, chairman of British Airways and president of the Confederation of British Industry.