New Year’s Honours celebrated at The University of Nottingham

PA 01/09 A Professor at The University of Nottingham has been awarded an MBE in the 2009 New Year's Honours List. Ronald Carter, Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English Studies where he has worked since 1979, has been honoured for services to local and national higher education. He was joined in the New Year's Honours List by highly successful Nottingham alumni who have made their mark on modern Britain. In local education in the Nottingham region, Professor Carter has played a seminal part in the University's widening participation programmes, has developed School of English Studies literacy schemes in local primary and secondary schools — including the Nottingham University Samworth Academy — and is a community governor of Melbury Junior School in Bilborough, Nottingham. In national education Professor Carter has contributed to the development of the UK Schools National Curriculum for English over many years of work, first as national director of the LINC (Language in the National Curriculum Project) from 1989-1992, and in the last 10 years as a consultant to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), where he has also been recently seconded as an advisor for key skills, literacy and English as a second language. Professor Carter has also been Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and the international Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) as well as a member over many years of the Literature Advisory Committee of the British Council where his interests in language in education have been predominant.