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1. 21. Merger would create biggest college in Britain

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 11 September 2006 PLANS to merge MANCAT and City College - creating the largest college in the country - have been unveiled by education chiefs.

2. 22. 'Race mix isn't right in schools'

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 03 February 2007 RACIAL divisions in schools pose a risk to the stability of communities, education secretary Alan Johnson has warned. Towns such as Oldham are facing `ghettoisation', he says, because families from different ethnic minorities are refusing to let their children mix at school.

3. 23. Truancy shock for minister

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 November 2005

   TRUANCY figures in the constituency of Education Secretary Ruth Kelly are among the worst in the country, it has emerged.

   Just over half of all secondary school pupils in Bolton West skipped lessons in the past year, the official statistics show.

4. 24. £230m schools vision unveiled

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 April 2008 SWEEPING plans to issue pupils with laptop computers and offer new subjects such as golf, robotics and horse riding have been unveiled by Oldham education bosses.

5. 25. Truancy rate twice average

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 06 December 2007 MANCHESTER school children have improved their attendance - but many are still missing out on vital parts of their education.

6. 26. Council staff 'gagged' on school plans

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 31 May 2007 EDUCATION bosses have banned their staff in Salford from backing a school threatened with closure.

7. 27. Plans for 'supercollege' in Salford

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 24 January 2008 EDUCATION chiefs are calling for the creation of a Salford `supercollege'. Plans to merge the city's Salford, Eccles, and Pendleton colleges into a single entity will be rejected or backed at a crunch meeting next month.

8. 28. School designs 'fail to make grade'

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 13 February 2008 DESIGNER Wayne Hemingway says builders and education bosses are not making the grade when it comes to creating the next generation of schools.

9. 29. Triumph of the dad left for dead

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 May 2007 A BUSINESSMAN who lost everything after a savage assault has rebuilt his life through education.

10. 30. Top school 'biased against care children'

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 04 August 2006 A TOP girls' school has been criticised by an education watchdog for discriminating against care home and foster children.

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