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1. 1. End education snobbery, pleads minister

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 07 June 2006 TEACHERS and politicians should stop talking about "vocational" courses and use the word "professional" instead, Education Secretary Alan Johnson will suggest.

2. 2. Parents 'take out loans for private education'

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 August 2006 SOARING numbers of parents are applying for bank loans to put their children through private school, according to new figures.

3. 3. 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.

4. 4. Blair future 'rides on reforms'

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 05 February 2006 TONY Blair's position will be "untenable" if he has to rely on Conservative support to push controversial education reforms through, a Labour former Cabinet minister warned today.

5. 5. 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.

6. 6. Targets are slowing down our teens

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 October 2006 TOO many targets and too much testing are behind the "major problem" of teenagers failing to engage in education, according to a report. It also found that the "unprecedented" raft of policy initiatives was unlikely to produce significant improvements to the system.

7. 7. New school for expelled girl, aged 5

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 16 November 2006 TAMARA Howard, the girl expelled from school at just five years old over claims of violent behaviour, is back in education - just weeks after the M.E.N. highlighted her case. Tamara, who lives with her mum in Withington, is one of the youngest girls in the country to be permanently excluded from school after being accused of a string of incidents, including attacks on her teachers.

8. 8. Rebel Kinnock opposes plans

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 January 2006 FORMER Labour leader Lord Kinnock and former Education Secretary Estelle Morris will today challenge the government's proposed education reforms.

9. 9. 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.

10. 10. Tories sound a higher ed warning

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 08 March 2006 A GROUP of Conservative MPs has warned that too many students are going to university even though they are not able to benefit from higher education.

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