Tim Brighouse, ‘one of the century’s great educators’, dies aged 83

Sir Tim Brighouse was credited by many with a dramatic improvement in pupil performance in London Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Teachers and education experts this weekend paid tribute to Sir Tim Brighouse, “one of the great educators of this century” and “a delightful human being”, who has died at the age of 83.

The former schools commissioner for London and chief education officer for Birmingham and for Oxfordshire, who said he had learned from his own mistakes in teaching and believed in teachers’ ability to change the world, died on Friday after a short illness.