Tim Brighouse
{{Short description|British educator (1940–2023)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
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| name = Tim Brighouse
| image = Sir Tim Brighouse.png
| caption = Brighouse in 2012
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|01|15|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Leicestershire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|12|15|1940|1|15|df=yes}}
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| alma_mater = University of Oxford (PGCE)
| occupation = Educator
| children = 4
}}
Sir Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse (15 January 1940 – 15 December 2023) was a British educator. He was the Schools Commissioner for London between 2002 and 2007, where he led the London Challenge.{{cite news |url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2063723,00.html |title=London schools tsar Tim Brighouse retires |accessdate=25 February 2008 |work=The Guardian | first=Peter | last=Wilby | date=24 April 2007}}‘BRIGHOUSE, Sir Timothy Robert Peter’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U8723, accessed 19 May 2013]{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Tim Brighouse|url=http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/professor-sir-tim-brighouse/|website=Oxford University Department for Education|publisher=Oxford University|accessdate=5 July 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923233855/http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/professor-sir-tim-brighouse/|archivedate=23 September 2015}}
Early life and career
Brighouse was born in Leicestershire on 15 January 1940. He was brought up there and in East Anglia, and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, Lowestoft County Grammar School and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Brighouse took his PGCE at the Oxford University Department of Education in 1961.{{cite web|url=http://www.oxes.org.uk/about-us/featured-alumni/tim-brighouse/|title=Tim Brighouse – Oxford Education Society|website=www.oxes.org.uk}} He began his career as a schoolteacher, becoming a deputy head in a South Wales secondary modern school in 1966.{{cite web|url=http://www.effdebate.org/about/foundation-fellows/sir-tim-brighouse/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508033527/http://www.effdebate.org/about/foundation-fellows/sir-tim-brighouse/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=8 May 2017|title=Sir Tim Brighouse - Education Fast Forward|publisher=}}
In the early 1970s he worked for Buckinghamshire County Council's education department, and worked with Geoff Cooksey on plans for Stantonbury Campus, the first secondary school of Milton Keynes.{{cite web|title=Geoff Cooksey obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/apr/09/geoff-cooksey-obituary|work=The Guardian|accessdate=14 January 2014|date=9 April 2012}}
Later he was Professor of Education at Keele University (1989–1993), and Chief Education Officer in both Oxfordshire (1978–1989) and Birmingham Local Authorities.
Whilst he was at Birmingham, he was described by Conservative Education Secretary John Patten as a "madman ... wandering the streets, frightening the children". Brighouse sued and won substantial damages, which he donated to charity. He used some of it to set up the University of the First Age, to encourage out of hours activities to enrich school children's learning.{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-university-of-the-first-age-summer-schools-with-a-difference-410285.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-university-of-the-first-age-summer-schools-with-a-difference-410285.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=The University of the First Age: summer schools with a difference | first=James | last=Morrison | work=The Independent | publisher=Independent News and Media | date=3 August 2006 | accessdate=22 March 2009 | location=London}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/apr/09/localgovernment.education | title=A great crusade | first=Wendy | last=Berliner | work=The Guardian | publisher=Guardian News and Media | date=9 April 2002 | accessdate=22 March 2009 | location=London}}
In May 1997 Brighouse was awarded an honorary degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University.[http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/sites/www.open.ac.uk.students.ceremonies/files/Honorary%20graduate%20cumulative%20list(1).pdf Honorary graduate cumulative list], Open University
Brighouse was the Schools Commissioner for London between 2002 and 2007, where he led the London Challenge.
Brighouse was a Non-Executive Director of RM plc the UK educational IT company.{{cite web|url=http://www.rm.com/investors/Generic.asp?cref=GP839|title=Announcements from the RM Group of education companies - RM plc|website=www.rm.com}}
Brighouse was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=58929 |date=31 December 2008 |page=1 |supp=y }}
Personal life
Tim Brighouse was married to Elizabeth, who is leader of the Labour group on Oxfordshire County Council. They had four children and eight grandchildren.{{cite web|url=https://schoolsweek.co.uk/tim-brighouse/|title=Tim Brighouse, former schools commissioner for London|date=2 December 2014|website=schoolsweek.co.uk}} Brighouse died on 15 December 2023, at the age of 83.{{cite news |last1=Norris |first1=Miranda |title=Tributes paid to 'towering figure in education' in Oxfordshire |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23994157.tributes-paid-former-oxfordshire-education-chief/ |work=Oxford Mail |date=16 December 2023 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}}
Books and Articles
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- The A-Z of School Improvement: Principles and Practice (28 March 2013)
- Inspirations: A Collection of Commentaries and Quotations to Promote School Improvement (1 October 2006)
- What Makes a Good School Now? (6 May 2008)
- How to Improve Your School (21 January 1999)
- The Joy of Teaching (15 April 2008)
- ’’A ‘national education service’: what can we learn from the past?’’ Chapter 4 In Education System Design: foundations, policy options and consequences (2020). Hudson, B., Leask, M and Younie, S. RoutledgeTaylorFrancis.
- About Our Schools with Mick Waters (2022){{Cite web|last=Millar|first=Fiona|date=1 January 2022|title='Many hold Gove responsible': education guru sets out what's wrong with England's schools|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/01/sir-tim-brighouse-many-hold-gove-responsible-expert-educator-sets-out-whats-gone-wrong-with-britains-schools|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101114527/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/01/sir-tim-brighouse-many-hold-gove-responsible-expert-educator-sets-out-whats-gone-wrong-with-britains-schools|archive-date=1 January 2022|access-date=1 January 2022|website=The Guardian|language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/apr/24/schools.uk Biography] at the Guardian
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