BOXER Amir Khan will receive another honorary doctorate — recognising his sporting achievements and charity work.

Amir will be awarded with an honorary doctor of letters by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) during its graduation ceremonies later this month.

It comes after Amir previously received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bolton last year for his outstanding contribution to sport and charity.

Others to be receive honorary doctorates from the University of Bolton at last year's ceremony included Amir's cousin, former England and Lancashire cricket Sajid Mahmood, former Bolton Mayor Cllr Martin Donaghy, Area Coroner for Manchester West Alan Walsh and Baroness Warsi.

Amir will again swap boxing robes for university robes during one of MMU's graduation ceremonies between Tuesday, July 19 and Thursday, July 28.

The British professional boxer and two-time former world champion was the youngest British Olympic boxing medalist, winning silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics, at the age of 17.

He is also one of the youngest ever British world champions, winning the WBA light welterweight title at the age of 22.

Amir has also worked with Oxfam and is an NSPCC ambassador.

He also set up the Amir Khan Foundation and has raised money to support education and housing projects in countries around the world, building schools and orphanages to provide homes and education for underprivileged children.

Amir worked with the university as part of the national Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition, which encourages children to write poetry in different languages.

When the competition was launched, Amir said: "I would have loved to have entered a competition like this, because it would have given me the chance to learn a little bit more about my mother tongue.

"Sadly I didn’t have anything like this when I was at school, but I’m just so happy to be a part of it.

"Speaking another language, some people might feel shy about it but they shouldn’t — they should have confidence and be able to talk about what other languages they speak. I think it’s definitely going to boost everyone’s confidence by having this competition."