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1. 11. Exams shake-up gets black mark

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 18 October 2004 SWEEPING changes in secondary education, swapping GCSE's and A-levels for new diplomas, face criticism from bosses.

2. 12. Discipline purge in school shake-up

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 08 July 2004 TEACHERS are to be put back in the driving seat on school discipline in a bid to stamp out hooligan behaviour. The move is made clear in the government's five-year education plan being launched by Education Secretary Charles Clarke today.

3. 13. Storm over Kelly 'clash' on abortion

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 20 December 2004 NEW Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is at the centre of a religious row days after taking over her new job.

4. 14. '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.

5. 15. The appliance of science

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 25 September 2004 A MANCHESTER school that encourages girls to succeed in the world of science has been praised by Education Minister Ivan Lewis.

6. 16. 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.

7. 17. 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.

8. 18. 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.

9. 19. 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.

10. 20. 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.

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