Search Results

1. 1. 'Scandal' over funds

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 28 February 2004 A MANCHESTER college which has helped hundreds of thousands of teenagers brush up on basic literacy skills has been penalised to the tune of £300,000.

2. 2. Blair lends an ear

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 27 February 2004 TONY BLAIR is coming to Manchester - and he wants you to tell him how to improve Britain's schools.

3. 3. MP sacked for cocklers joke

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 26 February 2004 TORY MP Ann Winterton was sacked from the Parliamentary Conservative Party today after publicly joking about the deaths of the Chinese cocklers who drowned at Morecambe Bay.

4. 4. Countdown to £100 fines for truants' parents

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 26 February 2004 PARENTS who refuse to take responsibility for trying to improve the behaviour and attendance of their children at school will face £100 on-the-spot fines and compulsory parenting classes from tomorrow, the Government said.<BR>

5. 5. Booze your way to Oz

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 26 February 2004 IT'S every backpacker's dream flight . . . a pub in the sky on the way to Oz. Instead of extra leg room and posh nosh in the first class cabin, there will be tinnies, karaoke, pizza and talks about the Outback.

6. 6. "Gimmicks" fail to stop obesity crisis

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 25 February 2004 RISING obesity, binge-drinking and sexual disease were blamed on ministers today, ahead of a major new review on tackling the problems.

7. 7. Chinese pupils top of the class

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 25 February 2004 <FONT size=2>

   CHINESE children are coming top of the class in British schools, according to the latest figures.

   </FONT>

8. 8. Future workers will have 19 jobs

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 24 February 2004 WORKERS in the future will have 19 different jobs in their lifetime as people increasingly change careers, a new report has& predicted.

9. 9. Facing up to a better life

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 24 February 2004 YOUNG offenders want to show a new face to the public in an exhibition at The Lowry. Twelve inmates from a young offenders' institution are showing their self-portraits at the gallery until the end of the month as part of an arts education programme.

10. 10. Universities hit by strike over pay offer

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 24 February 2004 LECTURERS at the four universities in Manchester and Salford began a two-day strike today as part of a national protest against a new pay framework. Tomorrow, they will be supported by student activists protesting against top-up fees.

Filters