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1. 21. Bolton schools may merge

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 October 2008 THREE schools may merge to become a privately-sponsored academy. Education bosses in Bolton are in talks to create a 3,000-pupil `superschool'.

2. 22. Fall in! First pupils sign up for military-style Oldham school

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 08 December 2011 Organisers behind a proposed military-style secondary school have recruited their first pupils. The Phoenix Academy, earmarked to open in September 2013, would be staffed by ex-soldiers and service personnel.

3. 23. Lessons on how to be happy

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 May 2007 EDUCATION bosses in Manchester are spending £25,000 sending 25 teaching staff to America - to train them in giving children lessons in happiness.

4. 24. £110,000 hunt for school boss

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 26 April 2007 MANCHESTER has launched a search for its new education boss. .

5. 25. Concern over department's direction

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 19 April 2007 MANCHESTER'S education department has been a ship `without a rudder' for the last two years, critics have claimed.

6. 26. City schools boss on 'indefinite' sick leave

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 January 2007 MANCHESTER could soon be looking for yet another education boss - the FIFTH in less than two years. The current chief, Dr Alan Irving, has taken indefinite sick leave.

7. 27. Six city primary schools facing axe

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 07 September 2006 SIX schools have been earmarked for closure under a review into the future of primary education in Manchester. Council chiefs are considering plans to shut six primaries with low pupil numbers but plan to build two new ones in the city.

8. 28. 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.

9. 29. '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.

10. 30. 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.

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