Despite the recent climb-down on forcing all schools to become academies, unions remain concerned that the Government still intends for all schools to become academies over time.
Moreover, education secretary Nicky Morgan has said that schools will be forced to become academies if they are in local authorities that are ‘underperforming’, or when so many schools have already become academies that for them to remain outside the academy system would no longer be viable.
The National Union of Teachers, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the National Association of Head teachers, Unison, and the Association of Educational Psychologists have issued a joint statement against ‘the mass academisation of schools’ and are calling on the Government not to include a new Education Bill in the Queen’s Speech.
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