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1. 1. Schools facing single-sex ban

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 June 2006 EDUCATION chiefs in Manchester are considering scrapping single-sex education in state secondary schools. Parents are being asked whether they want to retain the five existing boys' and girls' schools - or change to an entirely co-educational system.

2. 2. 'Schools fiddling truancy figures'

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 November 2004 TEACHERS are fiddling registers to improve truancy figures, we can reveal today. An investigation ordered by education chiefs in Manchester found schools had "inflated" attendance by failing to follow registration policy.

3. 3. Truants ignore fines

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 13 July 2005 SCHOOL attendance in Manchester has got worse this year - despite parents of stay-away pupils being fined in their hundreds. Education bosses launched a huge crackdown on truancy after the city's school attendance rates were branded the worst in Britain last year. <BR>

4. 4. Big rise in pupils studying religion

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 17 January 2005 THE number of Manchester children studying religious education has soared by half in three years.

5. 5. Kids should call shots in class

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 29 November 2005 PUPILS should be given more control over what they learn, a top education expert has said.

6. 6. Akabusi: How kids can stay in front

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 February 2006 OLYMPIC medallist Kriss Akabusi launched Challenge Manchester by telling schoolchildren: If you want to get ahead, get an education.

7. 7. Delivering degree of true excellence

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 08 July 2010 Dame Nancy Rothwell doesn’t seem the kind of woman to be crushed by the burdens she carries. On the contrary, the new president and vice chancellor of Manchester University is energetic, buzzing with ideas – and ready for a fight.

8. 8. Super-head Jean is sacked

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 August 2006 A 'SUPER-HEAD' earning é140,000 a year has been sacked over a damning report into her running of a Manchester school.

9. 9. Heads slam school 'cash cuts'

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 04 February 2005 MANCHESTER is withholding '8.8m of government money from the city's primary schools, the headteachers' union said today.

10. 10. Row erupts over uniform cuts

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 01 June 2005 A MOVE to stop cash grants for school uniforms to more than 10,000 families by the Labour-led city council has been condemned as "taking blazers off the backs of kids".

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