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1. 61. '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.

2. 62. School is caned in cash row

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 11 April 2005 MANCHESTER'S top-performing state school has been told it must change the way it asks parents to contribute up to '1,230 a year towards their children's education.

3. 63. Schools failing on sex lessons - watchdog

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 25 January 2005 TOO many schools are failing to teach sex education and other "vital" issues teenagers need to understand for later life, Ofsted said today.

4. 64. One-to-one lessons to be launched

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 17 October 2005 CHILDREN who struggle with the three Rs will receive one-to-one tuition under moves to be announced by Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

5. 65. Brady wins backing of former head

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 30 May 2007 A GRAMMAR school headteacher has defended former pupil Graham Brady, who resigned from the Tory front bench in the furore over selective education.

6. 66. 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.

7. 67. £100,000 schools job still vacant

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 29 September 2005 A FIVE-month recruitment drive has failed to find a replacement for Manchester's chief education officer Mick Waters.

8. 68. 36,000 more teachers under New Labour

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 12 February 2007 LABOUR'S decade in power has seen an increase of more than 36,000 teachers and almost 155,000 teaching support staff in English schools. The figures were released in response to parliamentary questions from former education secretary David Blunkett.

9. 69. '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. 70. £1,000 fine threat to parents

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 04 September 2007 TOUGH new rules for excluded pupils were today welcomed by education chiefs in Greater Manchester.

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