SCOTLAND
Fife Today
Lindsey Alexander
lindsey.alexander@jpress.co.uk
Friday 11 September 2015
The University of St Andrews has confirmed it will not revoke an honorary degree it awarded to Scotland’s disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien in 2004.
The University’s Senate Business Committee (SBC) yesterday (Thursday) dismissed a request from a member of staff who had called publicly for the degree to be rescinded.
After discussion, committee members agreed there was no case to recommend to Senate that the degree be revoked, and that it considered the matter closed.
A spokesperson said: “SBC recognises that universities award honorary degrees in good faith on the basis of evidence available to them at a point in time, that revocation cannot change or ameliorate the wrongs of the past and that, notwithstanding the very real hurt and loss caused by the actions of the honorand, it would be no more than an empty gesture.
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