英国荣誉学位制实考

An On-the-Spot Survey of the Honorary Degree System in Britain

荣誉学位制是英国大学的一项传统。荣誉学位的授予通常被视为良好愿望的象征，用来酬谢长期忠心的服务，承认卓越的成就和对社区生活或大学事务的突出贡献，建立大学与人、机构和国家的联系，树立大学的地位与形象。由于它能使校方与个人双方受益，因而值得转型期我国的高等教育借鉴。

The honorary degree system is a convention in British universities. The conferring of anhonorary degree is usually seen as the symbol of good wish, Which is employed to reward for long-termdedicated services, to recognize outstanding achievements and prominent contribution to the communitylife or university activities, thus establishing connections between the university on the one hand, andpersonages, institutions or the state on the other, fostering the university's image and building up itsposition. Since this system is beneficial to both the university and the individual, it must have somethingabout it for our higher education in the reform period to draw on.