Honorary degrees

University College, Suffolk LittD: Trevor Nunn, director of the National Theatre and director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

MA: Bobby Robson, technical director of football at Barcelona FC, former professional footballer (1950-67), manager of Ipswich, England and PSV Eindhoven, head coach at Sporting Lisbon and Futebol Clube de Porto, Portugal.

Leicester University DLitt: Neil MacGregor, director of the National Gallery, former lecturer in the history of art, editor of The Burlington Magazine (1981-1987), trustee of the Pilgrim Trust, member of the board at the Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeshichte in Munich.

DMus: Evelyn Glennie, percussionist, winner of the Queen's Commendation Prize and the 1984 Shell/LSO Gold Medal, honorary patron of the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts.