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1. 1. '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.

2. 2. No hiding place for truants

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 November 2004 POLICE and education officers are joining forces in the latest round of truancy sweeps across the country.

3. 3. Leading head suspended after school probe

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 November 2004 ONE of Greater Manchester's leading head teachers, Dame Jean Else, has been suspended from Whalley Range High School for Girls after a two-year investigation into the running of the school.

4. 4. Tory schools bid for unruly kids

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 29 November 2004 A TORY government would set up a new '240 million network of Turnaround Schools to deal with up to 24,000 of England's most disruptive pupils, Conservative leader Michael Howard announced today.

5. 5. School knives shock

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 24 November 2004 A CHILLING snapshot of the knife culture among schoolchildren is revealed in a Manchester Evening News investigation today.

6. 6. One week left to ask for school place

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 29 November 2004 PARENTS of young children in Stockport are being warned they have only a week left to apply for a place in a reception class next September.

7. 7. Grammar schools in 'snub' row

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 12 November 2004 TRAFFORD'S grammar schools are being snubbed in a government scheme designed to expand the most popular state schools in Britain, it was claimed.

8. 8. Teachers may be 'inflating' attendance records

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 November 2004 TEACHERS in Manchester may be fiddling the school morning register to mark truants in class who are really absent, it was revealed today.

9. 9. School chiefs ban DJ's CD advice

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 November 2004 SCHOOL bosses have scrapped an anti-truancy CD featuring a local radio DJ after complaints from headteachers about the language he uses.

10. 10. University targets under fire

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 02 November 2004 MINISTERS are considering scrapping the controversial new targets that sparked a major row over getting more state school students into top universities.

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