DfE Academies Education
What are Academies?
Read the 'Latest News' on Academies.
Weeks after Academies Act passed, 142 schools to convert to academy status - (DfE - 1 September)
Academies are publicly funded independent schools, free from local authority and national government control. Other freedoms include setting their own pay and conditions for staff, freedoms concerning the delivery of the curriculum, and the ability to change the length of their terms and school days. Schools can register their interest in becoming an academy by completing and submitting an online registration form.
Academies can benefit from greater freedoms to help schools innovate and raise standards. These freedoms include
- freedom from local authority control
- ability to set your own pay and conditions for staff
- freedom from following the National Curriculum
- ability to change the lengths of terms and school days.
The DfE are also making plans for further freedoms for academies in the way they engage in local partnerships and deliver 14-19 education.
Recent Headlines...
05/11/10 - The Department has today published updates on the schools that have converted to academy status.
For more information on any of the following topics, go to the
'Academies Education'page on the DfE website:
- How to become an academy
- Information for schools interested in converting to academy status.
- Latest information on academies
- Information for schools wishing to register as an academy.
- General FAQs
- Answers to a series of frequently asked questions for schools considering converting to academy status.
- Supporting Documents
- Documents for schools to use after they have been informed that their application to convert to academy status has been approved in principle.
- Schools registering interest or submitting application
- A list of primary and secondary schools that have registered interest in becoming academies.
- Open academies
- A list of academies opened in the 2010-2011 academic year.
- What are academies?
- Information about the benefits and freedoms of gaining academy status.
- Academies Act 2010
- Information about the main elements of the Academies Act 2010.
- Academy funding
- Further funding advice and information for schools considering applying for academy status.