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1. 1. Brown's £8.5bn boost for education

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 March 2004 SCHOOLS, universities and colleges around the UK will get an £8.5 billion boost between next year and 2008, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in the Budget today.

2. 2. Eastern promise to boost education

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 March 2004 A NEW secondary school is to be built in east Manchester, as part of the biggest redevelopment of the city's schools. A site in Beswick has been earmarked for the 900-pupil school, part of the first phase of a £319m programme to bring the city's schools into the 21st century.

3. 3. Clarke slams fee rebels

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 31 March 2004 EDUCATION Secretary Charles Clarke today attacked an "ill-conceived" amendment, supported by some Labour backbenchers, to scupper his top-up fees Bill.

4. 4. Prime Minister's schools lesson

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 13 March 2004 TONY Blair was given a lesson on the future of education when he officially opened the £16m specialist arts college, Oakwood High school in Chorlton; then visited St Matthew's RC High School, in Moston, as part of the Labour Party's Big Conversation - to listen to the views of parents, teachers and pupils.

5. 5. Winner loses out in school 'lottery'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 March 2004 A PUPIL has lost out on the attendance lottery - despite being at school. The weekly 'Be There bonus' has been designed by education bosses to slash truancy, by rewarding youngsters for being in class on a particular day, but one winner lost out after turning up late.

6. 6. 123 schools fear axe

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 March 2004 EDUCATION chiefs in Greater Manchester are under pressure to close or amalgamate 123 schools which have one in four desks empty. Shool Standards Minister David Miliband says there are thousands of surplus places in primary and secondary schools in the area.

7. 7. Unions' plea over school closures

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 02 March 2004 UNION leaders have warned against `knee-jerk decisions' on axeing schools after education minister David Miliband revealed there were surplus places at 117 schools across Greater Manchester. He urged education authorities to consider closures or mergers.

8. 8. Virtalis adds new dimension to university projection plans

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 March 2004 COMPUTING and technology students are taking their designs to the third dimension with the help of a Sale firm. An £800,000 grant from the Higher Education Funding Council of England has allowed Nottingham Trent University to develop a state-of-the-art facility which features a stereoscopic projection system using Virtalis's StereoWorks software.

9. 9. Your chance to tell Blair what's wrong with schools

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 March 2004 M.E.N. readers still have time to win a head-to-head debate with Tony Blair about education. We are looking for 10 parents of secondary school pupils to tell the Prime Minister what they think is wrong in Britain's classrooms - and what should be done.

10. 10. Uni bosses urge fees rethink

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 March 2004 A& GROUP of university heads is urging the Government to reconsider its plans for variable tuition fees. The 15 vice-chancellors and principals of mainstream universities and colleges say they welcome "many parts" of the Higher Education Bill.

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