My friend and former colleague Anne Turvey, who has died aged 73 of multiple system atrophy, worked for nearly 30 years at the University of London’s Institute of Education, where she was a mainstay of its English teacher training and MA programmes. Before that she taught English for 15 years at St Angela’s Ursuline school in Forest Gate, east London.
She also played a leading role in the London Association for the Teaching of English, and helped to initiate a national boycott of Sats tests in 1993. Later she was its chair between 1997 and 2018.
