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1. 1. 36,000 more teachers under New Labour

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 12 February 2007 LABOUR'S decade in power has seen an increase of more than 36,000 teachers and almost 155,000 teaching support staff in English schools. The figures were released in response to parliamentary questions from former education secretary David Blunkett.

2. 2. 'Race mix isn't right in schools'

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 03 February 2007 RACIAL divisions in schools pose a risk to the stability of communities, education secretary Alan Johnson has warned. Towns such as Oldham are facing `ghettoisation', he says, because families from different ethnic minorities are refusing to let their children mix at school.

3. 3. 'Save our school from demolition'

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 February 2007 STAFF, parents and pupils are campaigning to save a school that has been earmarked for demolition. The closure of Springhill High School, on Turf Hill Road, is part of a é163m plan to revitalise secondary education in Rochdale.

4. 4. Home teaching on the rise

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 24 February 2007 SOARING numbers of parents are teaching their children at home because they are not happy with the quality of state education, according to government research.

5. 5. College accused of stalling merger bid

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 19 February 2007 A MANCHESTER college has been accused of stalling talks to form the country's biggest college. Funding chiefs want City College to merge with Mancat to create a 70,000-student super college.

6. 6. Emotional literacy 'can tackle gang culture'

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 February 2007 TEACHING children to control their emotions could stop us creating a society of gangsters, an educational leader said.

7. 7. £18m college to halt town's 'brain drain'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 22 February 2007 AN £18m sixth form college is to be built in Rochdale to stop the `brain drain' of students to other towns.

8. 8. The £10 money-spinners

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 February 2007 YOUNG entrepreneurs have made a tidy profit from a business they set up for just £10.

9. 9. Blair: I was right over tuition fees

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 15 February 2007 TONY Blair claimed today that new figures showing a rise in university applications had "completely vindicated" his controversial decision to charge students top-up tuition fees.

10. 10. Villagers lose school fight

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 February 2007 VILLAGERS have lost a battle to block the demolition of a century-old primary school which will be replaced with a new one.

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