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1. 11. £50M e-University "waste"

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 03 March 2005 A FAILED Government scheme to offer British university degree courses over the internet has been condemned as a "disgraceful waste" of public money after it attracted just 900 students at a cost of é50 million.

2. 12. Parent power reveals school shame

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 March 2005 CAMPAIGNING parents have obtained secret reports detailing the shocking conditions at a Greater Manchester school.

3. 13. Extra cash pledged for schools

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 March 2005 MILLIONS of pounds of extra cash has been pledged for schools to help make Britain "the best educated, best trained and best skilled country in the world".

4. 14. Mum wins probe on school 'fees'

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 07 March 2005 CLAIMS that Manchester's most successful state school is breaking the law in the way it asks for contributions of '1,230 a year from parents will be investigated.

5. 15. Study grants boost for EU students

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 15 March 2005 MORE EU students will be able to claim Government grants for studying at British universities after a ruling today from the European Court of Justice.

6. 16. Schools crisis fear

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 March 2005 MORE than 70 head teachers in Salford fear a new government policy will mean untrained staff teaching in the city's primary schools every week.

7. 17. Girls drinking as much as boys

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 March 2005 AS many teenage girls as boys have consumed alcohol in the last week, figures revealed today.

8. 18. Labour pledge on school dinners

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 21 March 2005 LABOUR today promised a package of measures to improve school dinners as the party launched its children's "mini manifesto".

9. 19. 'Don't bury your heads in the sand'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 24 March 2005 AFTER 16 years in the force Salford bobby Mark Marsden thought he had teenage troublemakers sussed. Then he joined a pioneering high school as its full-time police officer and soon realised there was more to it.

10. 20. Girls of 15 still taking sex risks

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 24 March 2005 MORE than a quarter of 15-year-old girls in the north west have had sex and more than three quarters of those did not use any protection, a survey reveaks today.

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