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1. 1. Brown's £8.5bn boost for education

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 March 2004 SCHOOLS, universities and colleges around the UK will get an £8.5 billion boost between next year and 2008, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in the Budget today.

2. 2. Eastern promise to boost education

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 March 2004 A NEW secondary school is to be built in east Manchester, as part of the biggest redevelopment of the city's schools. A site in Beswick has been earmarked for the 900-pupil school, part of the first phase of a £319m programme to bring the city's schools into the 21st century.

3. 3. Teach kids to do their sums

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 15 March 2004 SIXTY per cent of today's adults believe there was something vital missing from their education - lessons in how to handle money.

4. 4. Clarke slams fee rebels

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 31 March 2004 EDUCATION Secretary Charles Clarke today attacked an "ill-conceived" amendment, supported by some Labour backbenchers, to scupper his top-up fees Bill.

5. 5. Prime Minister's schools lesson

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 13 March 2004 TONY Blair was given a lesson on the future of education when he officially opened the £16m specialist arts college, Oakwood High school in Chorlton; then visited St Matthew's RC High School, in Moston, as part of the Labour Party's Big Conversation - to listen to the views of parents, teachers and pupils.

6. 6. Winner loses out in school 'lottery'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 March 2004 A PUPIL has lost out on the attendance lottery - despite being at school. The weekly 'Be There bonus' has been designed by education bosses to slash truancy, by rewarding youngsters for being in class on a particular day, but one winner lost out after turning up late.

7. 7. 123 schools fear axe

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 March 2004 EDUCATION chiefs in Greater Manchester are under pressure to close or amalgamate 123 schools which have one in four desks empty. Shool Standards Minister David Miliband says there are thousands of surplus places in primary and secondary schools in the area.

8. 8. Unions' plea over school closures

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 02 March 2004 UNION leaders have warned against `knee-jerk decisions' on axeing schools after education minister David Miliband revealed there were surplus places at 117 schools across Greater Manchester. He urged education authorities to consider closures or mergers.

9. 9. Groups plea for more cash

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 15 March 2004 CONSUMER groups want the government to put its money where its mouth is - and stump up more cash for financial education.

10. 10. Virtalis adds new dimension to university projection plans

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 March 2004 COMPUTING and technology students are taking their designs to the third dimension with the help of a Sale firm. An £800,000 grant from the Higher Education Funding Council of England has allowed Nottingham Trent University to develop a state-of-the-art facility which features a stereoscopic projection system using Virtalis's StereoWorks software.

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