Honorary degrees

University of Central England

Honorary doctorates: David Cragg, chief executive of Birmingham Training and Enterprise Council and former marketing director for further education, Birmingham City Council; Patricia Marsh, chair of Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust; Stephen Tumim, principal, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, ex-chief inspector of prisons for England and Wales; Reginald Eyre, chair of Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation, ex-senior partner, Eyre & Co; Graham Meldrum, chief fire officer, West Midlands Fire Service and regular lecturer, Fire Service College; Will Hutton, editor of The Observer, former economics editor and deputy editor at The Guardian; Bridget Kendall, BBC correspondent, Washington; Audrey Emerton, chair, Brighton Health Care NHS Trust, dame of justice, Order of St John Ambulance and dame Order of the British Empire; Rachel Pierce, assistant director, Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work.