Five possible reasons why the number of schools choosing to become academies is slumping
Education Uncovered reveals exclusively today that the number of schools opting to leave the auspices of their local authorities to become academies is falling dramatically.
From a position in 2016-17 when just over 1,000 governing bodies opted for their schools to academise, in the first 11 months of the 2018-19 academic year there were only 358 applications.
Some might wonder if there is a ceiling effect, with so many schools now academies that the rate of new conversions will inevitably be slowing.
But, while it is true that more than three quarters of secondary schools are now academies – so there may be the possibility of some ceiling effect approaching there - in the primary sector two thirds of schools are not. So there should, in theory, be plenty of scope for many more conversions.
Why, then, are fewer schools choosing to academise?
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 2 September 2019
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