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Direct linkHeffernan, Michael; Jons, Heike – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2007
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge had developed different attitudes towards the award of honorary degrees through the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Recently, both have adopted a similar cautious and apolitical stance. This essay describes the role of honorary degrees in the production and reproduction of their cultural…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History
