Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus has been installed as the new chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.
A procession was held at the city centre campus, followed by a ceremony in the university's Saltire Centre.
Prof Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work with the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in the 1980s. It is said to have helped lift millions of people out of poverty through its micro-lending system.
His daughter Monica, an opera singer based in New York, performed at the ceremony, accompanied by musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Prof Yunus said: "Being installed as chancellor is a very happy occasion for me. As chancellor, I will share my experiences and make them see there's nothing unusual in what I do – and that they can do that too."
Prof Yunus was made an honorary doctor of letters of the university in 2008. In 2010 the university opened the Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing in Bangladesh, to improve nursing and midwifery training.
Prof Yunus returned to the university in March this year to announce the launch of the Grameen Scotland Foundation, a charitable trust which will use the micro-lending system to support business development in Scotland.
The foundation will lend money to those who wish to start or expand small businesses. It is due to launch next year after a partnership deal is secured with Tesco Bank, which will supply £500,000 of the loan capital required.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article