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1. 1. Smiles as nursery is saved

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17 June 2004 PARENTS are celebrating after education bosses were told to keep open a town's last nursery school. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator said Rochdale council's case for closing Sunny Brow in Middleton was "too weak" to succeed, marking the end of a massive campaign by parents, teachers and governors.

2. 2. Arndale joins truancy battle

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 June 2004 SECURITY guards at Manchester Arndale Centre are to get tough on truants by reporting them to education bosses. Guards will have the right to stop and question all school-age children in the centre during school hours.

3. 3. Schools out for Nord Anglia in £11.9m deal

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 June 2004 CHEADLE-based education and training firm Nord Anglia has sold its UK schools for '11.9m. The company, which is now the nursery-place market leader in the UK and runs the elite Princess Christian nursery chain, announced earlier this year that it intended to dispose of its UK schools division because it is no longer core to its strategy.

4. 4. Extra cash for maths teachers

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 28 June 2004 EDUCATION Secretary Charles Clarke is to offer maths graduates a host of incentives in a bid to increase teacher numbers and head off a recruitment crisis in the subject.

5. 5. Is £30m court too small to do itself justice?

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 18 June 2004 MANCHESTER'S new '30m magistrates' court complex is already overstretched and having to offload cases to neighbouring areas. Court bosses say they knew three years ago that the new complex on the site of the education offices in Spinningfield would be unable to cope, but it was already too late to change the plans.

6. 6. Caretaker graduates with honour

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 12 June 2004 A SCHOOL caretaker has been awarded an MBE for his services to education.

7. 7. Mum takes her girl out of school

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17 June 2004 A MOTHER who is heading a group of parents in a negligence claim against a failing school is teaching her child at home. Shirley Jones took her daughter Nicola, 13, out of Harrop Fold High, Little Hulton, Salford this week. She says she is unhappy that Nicola's year has been moved to a new site.

8. 8. Research shows graduates take time to find right job

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 June 2004 MORE than one in 10 of the people who graduated from university in 1995 are still not in jobs that required degrees, a survey showed today.

9. 9. Ghost of a chance for pupils at school of hope

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 28 June 2004 YOUNGSTERS who might find the going tough at lessons are being given a ghost of a chance to succeed at a "school" that doesn't really exist. Manchester now has a virtual "school" for truants, tearaways and the city's new arrivals.

10. 10. Schoolgirl kicked out for taking extra day holiday

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 15 June 2004 AN eight-year-old girl with an excellent attendance record was kicked out of school because her family holiday lasted ONE day longer than school rules allowed. Victoria Corry came back from holiday and was told there was no longer a place for her at Crumpsall Lane Primary.

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