My friend and PhD supervisor, Clyde Chitty, who has died aged 78 of a progressive neurological disease, was a powerful voice in education studies, particularly as an advocate for comprehensive schools. He wrote numerous articles and academic papers, and more than 20 books, including an important text on comprehensive education, Thirty Years On (1996), with his friend and collaborator Caroline Benn.
However he once confided in me that his proudest publication was a short story he wrote as an undergraduate about a gay relationship. This was before male homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967.
