Lord Sutherland of Houndwood obituary

Stewart Sutherland became the first head of Ofsted, the schools regulator established in 1992.During a glittering academic career, in which he became vice-chancellor of two universities, London and then Edinburgh, Stewart Sutherland, Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, who has died aged 76, acquired two further distinctions.Ofsted was set up as the guardian of quality in the Conservative government’s quasi-market for schools, involving more parental choice, wider school autonomy and league table