New Year’s Honours revealed for higher education

By David Matthews, Holly Else. A clutch of professors have been knighted while the former head of Loughborough University is among those made a dame in the New Year’s Honours. Shirley Pearce, who is being recognised for “services to higher education”, was vice-chancellor at the institution from 2006 to 2012, and since 2009 has been a board member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. She is also the current chair of the College of Policing.
Others who have been made dames include Frances Kirwan, professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and Pamela Shaw, professor of neurology at the University of Sheffield. More...