"It's a very late and convenient conversion from some of them [her opponents] in the lead-up to an election, but I'm glad they are now finally admitting what I've been saying all along has been right," she said.
As part of the process of academy conversion, says Barry Bainbridge, former headteacher and now consultant, governors should be asking very searching questions of the headteacher to ensure the necessary levels of financial expertise are available to the senior leadership team.
Since then, Hudson has drawn remarkable number of followers to his site, Vandog Traveller (25,000 in January alone), which describes the van's conversion and the fun he has had because of it.
When the conversion of numbers 1, 2 and 3 Cornwall Terrace – acquired last year for £120m by Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, one of the three wives of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former emir of Qatar – is complete, the resulting palace is expected to be London's first £200m-plus pad.
Sean O'Callaghan, a former IRA southern commander who became Trimble's adviser on republicanism, recalled Burnside's lukewarm conversion.
The decision to get on one's bike comes with clear trade-offs, and while residents who make the switch will eventually help improve the quality of Kathmandu's air, their conversion immediately opens them up to potential new risks.
Cuba's "alternative model", a science-based, low-input sustainable agriculture, was launched - the largest such conversion in history.
It is this more oblique objective that the writer must aim for, even if that writer wishes for a more overt conversion.
That lost generation of talent - so poorly managed under a succession of coaches (most notably Robbie Deans and Ewen McKenzie) and out-of-touch Australian Rugby Union regimes - would have as its beginning the 2010 Bledisloe Cup fixture in Hong Kong, won 26-24 by the Wallabies at the death, courtesy of a James O'Connor try and sideline conversion.
Iran also remains highly sensitive towards the issue of conversion.
Girls and women abducted by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have described life in captivity which includes forced marriage and labour, rape, torture, psychological abuse and coerced religious conversion.
