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{{short description|British scholar of French (born 1951)}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Michael Worton
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| image = English as a Global Language- Are Native Speakers Losing Out? (16518172161) (Michael Worton cropped).jpg
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| caption = Worton in 2015
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| birth_name = Michael John Worton
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| birth_place = [[Luanshya]], [[Northern Rhodesia]]
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| awards = [[Ordre des Palmes Académiques]]
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| education = [[Dumfries Academy]]<br />[[University of Edinburgh]] (PhD)
| thesis_title = The evolution of the poetry of Rene Char, 1928-1945
| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19430
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'''Michael John Worton'''
In 2009, he wrote ''Review of Modern Foreign Languages Provision in Higher Education in England''<ref>See HEFCE website < http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_41/>. Retrieved 1 June 2010</ref> for the UK Government, and in the same year was appointed Higher Education Advisor to the [[British Council]].<ref name=UCL/>
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==Early life and education==
Worton was born in [[Luanshya]], [[Northern Rhodesia]] (now [[Zambia]]), of a Yorkshire father and Scottish mother. Worton's family returned to [[Scotland]] when he was still of primary-school age, and he was educated at Sanquhar Academy and then [[Dumfries Academy]], and the [[University of Edinburgh]] for his [[Master of Arts]]{{fact|date=November 2017}} and [[Doctor of Philosophy]]<ref>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Edinburgh|title=The evolution of the poetry of Rene Char, 1928-1945|first= Michael John|last=Worton|date=1982
==Career==
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* 2005: Promoted to Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
* 2009: Medal of Honoured Worker in Education of the [[Republic of Kazakhstan]]
* 25 November 2010: [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] by the [[British Academy]]; "for his leadership in addressing 'the languages deficit' among British university students"<ref>{{cite news|title=British Academy President's Medal|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/BAR17-06-PresidentsMedal.pdf|accessdate=23 July 2017|work=British Academy Review|issue=17|date=March 2011|pages=13–14
===Advisory appointments===
* Member, [[Philip Lawrence Awards]] Judging Panel | Member, European Science Foundation Steering Committee, 'European Reference Index for the Humanities' | Member, Higher Education Panel of the Church of England Board of Education | Chair, HEFCE/AHRC Expert Group on Research Metrics |
===Publications===
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* ''National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-cultural Context'<ref> edited by Michael Worton with Nana Wilson-Tagoe (UCL Press, 2004) {{ISBN missing}}</ref><ref name=UCL/>
* ''Liberating Learning: Widening Participation''<ref>edited by Michael Worton and Patrick Derham ( University of Buckingham Press, 2010) {{ISBN missing}}</ref><ref name=UCL/>
* ''[[Michel Tournier (Worton book)|Michel Tournier]]'' (edited by Worton, 1995)
==References==
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