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1. 31. Brown plans a class act

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 08 April 2005 CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown says Labour's manifesto will commit them to switching savings from unemployment benefit into education.

2. 32. Truancy top of agenda

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 December 2005 THE new education boss for Manchester will take over with school attendance levels in the city worse than anywhere in the country.<BR>

3. 33. Question for Kelly on school requests

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 June 2005 EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly is to be asked whether Manchester's most successful state school is continuing to breach the law in the way it asks parents to contribute up to '1,230-a-year towards their child's schooling.

4. 34. Truancy shock for minister

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 November 2005

   TRUANCY figures in the constituency of Education Secretary Ruth Kelly are among the worst in the country, it has emerged.

   Just over half of all secondary school pupils in Bolton West skipped lessons in the past year, the official statistics show.

5. 35. Kelly: 'I wasn't due for demotion'

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 May 2005 EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly dismissed as "nonsense" reports that she had been in line for a demotion to the Treasury in Tony Blair's reshuffle.

6. 36. Peerage for ex-minister

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 13 May 2005 MANCHESTER-born former Education Secretary Estelle Morris is to become a life peer. She is one of 27 ex-MPs awarded peerages today in the wake of the General Election.

7. 37. Enterprise launch

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 17 May 2005 STAR Trek actor Patrick Stewart beamed up to herald a new age in higher education. The captain of the Enterprise is the Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield and was the star attraction at the launch of a centre in Oldham.

8. 38. School in 'happy slap' row

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 May 2005 EDUCATION chiefs have been urged to launch a full investigation into claims that a schoolgirl was the victim of a "happy slapping" attack. Becky Smith, 16, was knocked unconscious after she was set upon by a gang of teenagers in Blackley.

9. 39. Kelly blasts 'Happy Slap' craze

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 May 2005 EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly has slammed the craze of `happy slapping', in the wake of an attack on a Manchester schoolgirl.

10. 40. City schools chief quits for new job

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 April 2005 MANCHESTER chief education officer Mick Waters has announced he is to move on - after less than two-and-a-half years.

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