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1. 21. Minister praises helpers

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 15 May 2003 EDUCATION Secretary Charles Clarke praised local pupils for their determination to help war-torn children in Iraq.

2. 22. School places to be cut

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 January 2003 MANCHESTER education chiefs have revealed plans to slash more than 1,000 surplus primary places from city schools - plus a bid for millions of government cash to replace crumbling buildings.

3. 23. Hefty price to pay for degree

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 27 November 2003 THE government plans to make students pay more for their education, but the price tag for a degree is already pretty hefty. Controversial plans to charge students up to £3,000 a year have been cautiously welcomed by Manchester universities, which say they need the cash.

4. 24. Young, poor and on the scrapheap

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 12 August 2003 DISADVANTAGED young people in the north west believe they are being frozen out of the jobs market and education system, a report has revealed. Nearly 50 per cent of underprivileged 14 to 25-year-olds in the region feel they are being held back by a lack of qualifications.

5. 25. Plea to track down missing millions

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 April 2003 SCHOOLS across Manchester need the government and the city's education chiefs to locate the `missing millions' from their budgets urgently, says a leading head teacher.

6. 26. Dame asks where £6.9m has gone

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 03 May 2003 HEAD teacher Dame Jean Else wants some urgent answers from Manchester education bosses, after Education Secretary Charles Clarke claimed the local authority was sitting on '6.9m while schools struggled to balance their budgets.

7. 27. People who bring learning alive

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 08 August 2003 MANCHESTER'S director of education, Mick Waters, said: "Teaching assistants are valuable members of the schools staff - they make a huge difference to the learning of individual children.

8. 28. Schools face closure

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 June 2003 FOUR council-run primary schools in Salford are likely to close and an education chief has warned that action must be taken soon to shut several Roman Catholic primaries.

9. 29. Parents sue over 'failing' high school

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 25 September 2003 PARENTS of pupils at a Salford school branded a failure are to seek damages from the local education authority. In July, Harrop Fold High School, Little Hulton, received one of the most damning Ofsted reports on a school in the city, and it was placed in special measures. A group of parents are now to take legal action as they believe the school and the LEA failed in their duty to provide adequate teaching.<BR>

10. 30. College rises from the ashes

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 January 2003 IT HAS risen like a phoenix from the ashes and now Nicholls Sixth Form College is a state of the art education establishment to rival the finest in Manchester.

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