My friend and fellow campaigner Jan Hardy, who has died aged 77, was a committed anti-racist campaigner who became the county adviser for multicultural education in Hertfordshire local authority and a co-founder of the Anti-Racist Teacher Education Network.
After achieving top grades at A-level and then a degree in chemistry and sociology from the University of Surrey (1968), Jan took a PGCE at Goldsmiths College, London, and, from 1968 to 1974, taught chemistry at Alperton high school in the London borough of Brent. He then joined Homerton College, University of Cambridge, as a senior lecturer (1974-86), where he witnessed the inadequate preparation given to new and serving teachers on how to work in increasingly ethnically and culturally diverse schools.
