Entirely academy system will take 20 years to achieve, on current conversion trends
The DfE: Saying again it wants all schools to be academies. Pic: Alamy.
It will take around 20 years for England to have an all-academy state school system at recent - pre-pandemic - rates, fresh analysis by Education Uncovered reveals today.
As Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, said he now wants all pupils to be studying in academies, scrutiny of his own department’s data shows just how far off England’s schools system is from this, and how a raft of measures he announced yesterday will have to be transformative for it to be achieved quickly.
Data for academy conversions shows the number of new academies was on a downward trend from 2017-18 to 2020, with that trajectory of course continuing over the past year, as new academisations continued to slow in the Covid-19 era.
The data
Two graphs help to illustrate this.
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 29 April 2021
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