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1. 1. Parents 'take out loans for private education'

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 August 2006 SOARING numbers of parents are applying for bank loans to put their children through private school, according to new figures.

2. 2. Top school 'biased against care children'

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 04 August 2006 A TOP girls' school has been criticised by an education watchdog for discriminating against care home and foster children.

3. 3. Super-head Jean is sacked

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 August 2006 A 'SUPER-HEAD' earning é140,000 a year has been sacked over a damning report into her running of a Manchester school.

4. 4. 'Stop brain drain so town can make grade'

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 28 August 2006 A STUDENT has called for action to halt Rochdale's "brain drain" after he was forced out of his home town to take his A-level exams.

5. 5. Probe into 'buried' school results

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 27 August 2006 MINISTERS are facing an investigation from the statistics watchdog over claims they tried to "bury" news of poor primary school test results.

6. 6. Fresh calls to scrap A-Levels

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 15 August 2006 MINISTERS faced fresh calls to scrap A-Levels, just 48 hours before 250,000 teenagers receive their exam results.

7. 7. Drug test kits used in schools

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 August 2006 SCHOOLS in Greater Manchester are to screen their buildings for traces of cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, heroin and LSD as part of a drive to stamp out drug use among pupils. Two schools in Oldham have already ordered é195 swab-testing kits that can detect the residue left behind by the drugs on walls, desks and toilets.

8. 8. 400 pupils are kicked out for violent threats

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 03 August 2006 MORE than 400 pupils have been excluded from Salford secondary schools for threatening or attacking staff. And 95 pupils were kicked out for physically assaulting an adult in cases that included "violent behaviour, wounding and obstruction and jostling".

9. 9. GCSE results 2006

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 24 August 2006 ALL the Greater Manchester GCSE results will be published here as we get them from the schools and colleges.

10. 10. A-Level results are better than ever

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17 August 2006 SCHOOLS and colleges across Greater Manchester are celebrating their best-ever A-level results. As students across the country received their grades, many head teachers and principals in the region reported a rise in pass rates.

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