THE University of Durham is to mark another stage of its expansion in Stockton by conferring honorary doctorates on two former vice-chancellors and two main figures in the medical world.
This year, the campus is launching its joint medical degree programme with the University of Newcastle.
The first 70 medical students start this term and the research teams will be moving into the new Wolfson Research Institute over Christmas.
At the formal opening of the institute next year, the university will confer honorary degrees on the two former vice-chancellors of Durham who initiated the academic enterprise that has become the University Of Durham Stockton Campus. They are Emeritus professor Sir Fredrick Holliday, vice-chancellor from 1980 to 1990, and Emeritus professor Evelyn Ebsworth, vice-chancellor from 1990 to 1998. Also honoured will be Sir Donald Irvine, president of the General Medical Council, who is a graduate of the King's College, University of Durham, and Lord Walton of Detchant, an acclaimed neurologist, who also graduated from King's College.
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