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1. 1. Focus Education converts church into £2m centre

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 13 February 2007 A VICTORIAN church in Saddleworth is being converted into a é2 million conference and exhibition centre this summer.

2. 2. 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.

3. 3. '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.

4. 4. Half of kids are facing debts problem by 17

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 13 February 2007 MORE than half of all our schoolchildren have been in debt by the time they reach 17, an education charity has warned.

5. 5. Reed promises shareholders a windfall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 February 2007 PUBLISHING group Reed Elsevier has unveiled plans to offload its under-performing Harcourt education business.

6. 6. Johnson: 'Don't moralise on marriage'

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 February 2007 A FIERCE political debate erupted yesterday after Education Secretary Alan Johnson suggested MPs should not `moralise' about marriage.

7. 7. '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.

8. 8. Men shoppers 'put family health at risk'

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 02 February 2007 JUNK-FOOD loving men are putting the health of their families at risk as they take charge of the weekly grocery shop. One in three men say they now do the supermarket run, but shun healthy food choices because of a lack of `cost, education and time'.

9. 9. 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.

10. 10. 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.

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