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Honorary Degrees

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Scottish Universities shell out on honorary degrees »

Scottish universities have spent £100,000 over the past three years on honorary degrees for celebrities. The University of St Andrews has recorded the biggest spend, with £30,000 spent in the last year alone on travel, hospitality and acco...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Polly Dallyn | Read more »

Rangers owner honoured with degree »

David Murray ceremony

Scottish businessman and entrepreneur David Murray is among noted figures to receive an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh this year. Sir David, who received a knighthood in 2007, received his honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at th...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Cameron Robinson | Read more »

Scottish Disney executive awarded honourary degree from QMU »

Walt Disney

When Andrew Mooney grew up in Whitburn, a mining village in West Lothian, he couldn’t see the point in college. He wanted to go to work and get a head start over his colleagues. 30 years later, the influential Scot has returned to the Lothians a...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Philip Close | Read more »

Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt honour former supermarket chief  »

Lord Sainsbury

Lord Sainsbury, the controversial businessman and politician, is amongst those receiving honorary doctoral degrees from both the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. The former Science Minister and Labour Party peer received an Hon...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

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