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1. 11. Teacher helps build African school

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 December 2008 A MANCHESTER teacher has given schoolchildren in Africa a huge boost to their education - by helping to build them a school.

2. 12. 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'.

3. 13. 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. 14. £110,000 hunt for school boss

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

5. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. '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. 20. £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.

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