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1. 1. Clarke's vow on top-up fees

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 September 2003 CONTROVERSIAL plans for student top-up fees of up to £3,000 will go ahead as planned. Education Secretary Charles Clarke said his job was to make education available to everyone and it was only right that graduates seeking highly-paid jobs should make a contribution.

2. 2. School bosses back to class

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 29 September 2003 EDUCATION officials are moving out of their offices to spend time in the classroom as part of an attempt to improve standards. In a scheme called Manchester Monday Mornings squads of ten education authority staff will teach in schools across the city.

3. 3. Supply teachers are in demand

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 29 September 2003 ALMOST one in ten registered teachers in service is a supply teacher. Lizzie Gething looks at the pros and cons of the job.

4. 4. Keegan's winning green team

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 26 September 2003

   IT'S going to be green and it's got the support of Manchester City manager Kevin Keegan. More than £1.5m will be spent on transforming the Medlock Valley in east Manchester into a zone where people of all ages can enjoy fishing, walking or visiting a discovery centre.

5. 5. Inquiry called after exam marking blunders

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 25 September 2003 AN INQUIRY has been demanded after a Manchester headteacher discovered more than half her pupils had been given the wrong exam grade. Staff at Whalley Range High School for Girls sent back all 280 key stage three English papers to be remarked when the results were disappointingly low. They were staggered when 170 were upgraded.<BR>

6. 6. Parents sue over 'failing' high school

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 25 September 2003 PARENTS of pupils at a Salford school branded a failure are to seek damages from the local education authority. In July, Harrop Fold High School, Little Hulton, received one of the most damning Ofsted reports on a school in the city, and it was placed in special measures. A group of parents are now to take legal action as they believe the school and the LEA failed in their duty to provide adequate teaching.<BR>

7. 7. M.E.N plea to drivers to cut speed

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 24 September 2003 THE roads of Greater Manchester are the most dangerous in the country for children, new figures reveal. And as National Road Safety Week gets underway, the M.E.N. issues a plea to protect youngsters from death and injury outside schools where they should be safe from harm.

8. 8. Commercial property briefing

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 23 September 2003 ROUNDING up the latest news from the north west's commercial property sector.

9. 9. Mums in 'save our school' battle

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 22 September 2003 A GROUP of parents determined to stop the threatened closure of a "rapidly improving" Stockport primary school staged an angry protest - outside another school. More than 20 cars driven by mothers collecting their children from Outwood School, in Heald Green, stopped outside the gates of Etchells School to highlight their row with the local education authority.

10. 10. Weak students put on degree courses

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 22 September 2003 UNIVERSITIES and colleges are slashing entry requirements just days from the start of term in a last ditch effort to fill unwanted places. An M.E.N investigation has found students with a single D grade A-level are now being offered an array of three- year Bachelor of Science degree courses at one establishment in Greater Manchester.

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