11.   The honorary degrees were conferred on a Sunday.

12.   The university conferred the degree on the president only hours after he witnessed the signing of the first ever tax treaty between the two nations.

13.   All examinations and assignments are set and marked by SHU staff and the degree is conferred by the university.

14.   At the Cave Hill campus on Barbados, the honorary degree will be conferred on Dame Eugenia Charles and Sir John Stanley Goddard.

15.   McCarthy will confer the degree in Thailand in late November.

16.   Nuclear weapons even if kept safely in their silos do confer degrees of power that non-nuclear states can only gape at.

17.   A University of Culture on the grounds of the ministry confers degrees in the fine arts, with an annex in Mandalay for additional courses in painting and sculpture.