My friend and colleague Tony Millns, who has died aged 73, was the chief executive of English UK, an association of accredited language schools. Over his career, his work led to the introduction of university tuition fees and supported a boom in the number of international English-language students.
Tony was a visionary and a fixer. Whether chatting off the record to journalists or spending an evening in the pub, he was always great company and had a habit of declaiming out loud parts of Beowulf or The Canterbury Tales.
