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1. 21. Arndale joins truancy battle

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 June 2004 SECURITY guards at Manchester Arndale Centre are to get tough on truants by reporting them to education bosses. Guards will have the right to stop and question all school-age children in the centre during school hours.

2. 22. Smiles as nursery is saved

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17 June 2004 PARENTS are celebrating after education bosses were told to keep open a town's last nursery school. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator said Rochdale council's case for closing Sunny Brow in Middleton was "too weak" to succeed, marking the end of a massive campaign by parents, teachers and governors.

3. 23. Schools out for Nord Anglia in £11.9m deal

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 June 2004 CHEADLE-based education and training firm Nord Anglia has sold its UK schools for '11.9m. The company, which is now the nursery-place market leader in the UK and runs the elite Princess Christian nursery chain, announced earlier this year that it intended to dispose of its UK schools division because it is no longer core to its strategy.

4. 24. University hopefuls to apply after A-level results

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 September 2004 TEENAGERS will apply to university after they get their A-level results in future under radical plans backed by Education Secretary Charles Clarke today.

5. 25. Increase in frontline jobs in public sector

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 08 July 2004 GROWTH in public sector jobs has mainly been in frontline education and health services, not admin staff, since Labour came to power, according to a new report today.

6. 26. Faith schools' free bus blow

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 04 August 2004 HUMAN rights laws will make it illegal for local education authorities to lay on free buses exclusively for children from religious families to attend faith schools, a parliamentary committee warned today.

7. 27. Prime Minister's schools lesson

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 13 March 2004 TONY Blair was given a lesson on the future of education when he officially opened the £16m specialist arts college, Oakwood High school in Chorlton; then visited St Matthew's RC High School, in Moston, as part of the Labour Party's Big Conversation - to listen to the views of parents, teachers and pupils.

8. 28. Winner loses out in school 'lottery'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 March 2004 A PUPIL has lost out on the attendance lottery - despite being at school. The weekly 'Be There bonus' has been designed by education bosses to slash truancy, by rewarding youngsters for being in class on a particular day, but one winner lost out after turning up late.

9. 29. Handbook offers advice on the best in environmental expertise

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 06 April 2004 A NEW guide is helping companies tap into the deep vein of environmental expertise in the north west. `Environmental Capabilities in the North West' lists 12 of the region's higher education institutions along with their areas of expertise within the environmental technologies sector, rated on a scale from A star to C.

10. 30. New teachers have up to £15,000 debt

    Manchester Evening News, Saturday 03 April 2004 YOUNG teachers leave university saddled with debts of up to £15,000, a survey showed today. Tuition fees and student loans hit students on "traditional" four-year bachelor of education (BEd) degree courses the hardest, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers poll showed.

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