In 2010, “outstanding” schools were given the option of becoming academies and since then well over half of secondary schools have converted. Primary schools have been more hesitant and although many have chosen to become an academy, many more have chosen not to.
It was perhaps inevitable that the Department for Education (DfE) would decide to act to bring all schools “in line” with its preference for academies.
However, the announcement in the Budget and subsequent White Paper – Educational Excellence Everywhere – that all schools would be required to become academies by 2020 still came as something of a bolt out of the blue.
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