Last night there was a gleeful rubbing of hands at the Zelo Street blog when it announced that journalist Toby Young had been quietly removed from the board of governors at the West London Free School earlier in the year. First it was Michael Gove, dismissed as Education Secretary and moved to Chief Whip — has Young now also fallen?
He says it is not quite as it seems. “When our trust had just the West London Free School, the directors of the trust were called governors,” Young explains this morning. The West London Free School Trust has now opened two more schools and installed governors in each, overseen by the trust’s board of directors.
“Thereafter,” adds Young, “members of the local governing bodies were called ‘governors’ and members of the board of directors of the trust were called ‘directors’. My status hasn’t changed — I’m still a director.”
Still sounds better than Chief Whip.
