My father,Leonard Lawley, who has died aged 93, and was a leader in the first waves of polytechnics that drove the modernisation and expansion of higher education in the 1970s.
Len was the son of Albert Lawley,a factory foreman, and his wife, or Annie,a former milliner’s shop assistant, and was brought up in a modest home in the Black Country town of Cradley Heath. He won a free scholarship to Stourbridge grammar school. This set the sample for a life in which he took advantage of unusual opportunities and spent most of his working life in academia helping others to do the same.
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Source: theguardian.com