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1. 41. Government to press on with academies

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 March 2005 EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly today rejected calls to halt her controversial plans for creating hundreds of privately sponsored city academy schools.

2. 42. Truants ignore fines

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 13 July 2005 SCHOOL attendance in Manchester has got worse this year - despite parents of stay-away pupils being fined in their hundreds. Education bosses launched a huge crackdown on truancy after the city's school attendance rates were branded the worst in Britain last year. <BR>

3. 43. Learning centre is top class says Kelly

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 08 July 2005 EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly praised the lifelong learning opportunities on offer in Bury after opening a new adult education centre.

4. 44. Call for prisoners to get online

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 24 May 2005 PRISONERS should be given unrestricted access to the internet and email, according to a charity. Using the web would allow them to learn responsibility and ultimately reduce reconviction rates, the Forum on Prisoner Education (FPE) claimed.

5. 45. Kelly plays down links to Catholic group

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 January 2005 EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly has defended her right to privacy over links with a controversial Catholic group.

6. 46. Big rise in pupils studying religion

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 17 January 2005 THE number of Manchester children studying religious education has soared by half in three years.

7. 47. Poll casts doubt on tuition fees

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 13 November 2005 A GOVERMENT poll has cast doubt on Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's decision to make adults pay higher tuition fees for their college courses.

8. 48. Kelly jeered by irate head teachers

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 04 March 2005 EDUCATION Secretary Ruth Kelly was jeered and accused of "patronising" head teachers today during angry exchanges on her plans for school reforms.

9. 49. Kids should call shots in class

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 29 November 2005 PUPILS should be given more control over what they learn, a top education expert has said.

10. 50. Nord Anglia secures £26m boost

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 11 April 2005 TROUBLED education services group Nord Anglia, whose shares plummeted after a profit warning last month, has won a '26m contract to inspect schools and colleges for Ofsted.

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