Friday 28th February, 12.25pm
Central Hub
A keynote session
Follow Toby
Toby is a freelance journalist and the author of ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’ and ‘The Sound of No Hands Clapping’. He writes for a number of publications including The Spectator, The Guardian and a regular blog for The Telegraph, as well as his own blog on No Sacred Cows and is currently writing a book for Viking about education.
Toby is the lead proposer and co-founder of the West London Free School, the first free school in Britain to sign a Funding Agreement with the Secretary of State for Education, and now serves as the chair of the charitable trust that established the school. The trust is opening a primary school in Hammersmith in September and has been approved by the Department for Education to open a second primary in Earls Court in 2014. Toby has also written an eBook called ‘How to Set Up a Free School’.
His career has spanned co-founding Modern Review, to working for Vanity Fair in New York, performing in the West End and writing a restaurant column for the Evening Standard. He has also competed in Channel 4’s Come Dine with Me, and co-produced and co-wrote ‘When Boris met Dave’, a drama documentary for Channel 4 about the relationship between Mayor Boris Johnson and David Cameron.
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