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1. 1. First class education

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 December 2003 SCHOOLKIDS will feel they're going up in the world when they use a jet as a classroom at Manchester Airport. Monarch Airlines donated a 23-year-old DC10 airliner to airport bosses, who removed the wings and chopped it in half.

2. 2. 'Okay - must do better'

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 10 December 2003 EDUCATION bosses in Salford have been told they are doing okay - but that they should be doing a lot better. A report by Ofsted inspectors says the local education authority is doing a "satisfactory" job.

3. 3. Blair fights for fees

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 December 2003 TONY Blair insisted that student "top-up" fees were the only fair way to pay for the expansion of the university system. At Prime Minister's Question Time, he said it was wrong that the entire burden of creating extra higher education places should fall on the general taxpayer.

4. 4. MPs facing a New Year fight on fees

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 27 December 2003 LABOUR'S revolt over student top-up fees will come to a head early in the New Year. Desperate briefings by Education Secretary Charles Clarke have failed to head off the massive rebellion, which could threaten Tony Blair's future and which is now supported by more than 180 MPs.<BR>

5. 5. College where over a third of students 'quit'

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 December 2003 BOLTON Institute has one of the highest drop-out rates of any university or college in the country, according to new figures. The Higher Education Funding Council report suggests 32 per cent of students who started degrees at the college in 2000 are expected to quit their courses.

6. 6. From weak link to winner

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 December 2003 WHEN Bury council was branded "weak" in government assessments, it was a demoralising blow to its workers. But 12 months later, the Audit Commission has named the authority as the most improved in the country and the fourth best in a national list of best education providers.

7. 7. Academy is lesson to us all

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 December 2003 IT'S the face of the future, and changes at Manchester Academy are all ready working according to education minister, David Milliband. He lunched with young pupils, then spent an afternoon in lessons and chatting before laying the foundation stone for a new building.

8. 8. Plan ahead or count the cost

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 December 2003 IF YOU want to give your children a private education you need to start on the groundwork before they take their first steps.

9. 9. Teacher in text probe remains suspended

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 15 December 2003 EDUCATION officials are continuing to investigate the conduct of a teacher at Lymm High School following allegations that he texted and left voice messages for a pupil.

10. 10. Parents of truants shopped

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 04 December 2003 POLICE caught 83 schoolchildren playing truant in one day at the Trafford Centre - and most of them were Christmas shopping with their parents. One 12-year-old was taken into care while another had to be restrained by police after she became violent.

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