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1. 1. End education snobbery, pleads minister

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 07 June 2006 TEACHERS and politicians should stop talking about "vocational" courses and use the word "professional" instead, Education Secretary Alan Johnson will suggest.

2. 2. Question Time: Education

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 24 September 2006 TONY Blair's MEN Question Time: education

3. 3. Parents 'take out loans for private education'

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 August 2006 SOARING numbers of parents are applying for bank loans to put their children through private school, according to new figures.

4. 4. £115,000 for education in industry

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 May 2006 MANCHESTER'S Manufacturing Institute has launched a é115,000 educational scholarship fund to help create the next generation of industrial leaders in the north west.

5. 5. Schools facing single-sex ban

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 June 2006 EDUCATION chiefs in Manchester are considering scrapping single-sex education in state secondary schools. Parents are being asked whether they want to retain the five existing boys' and girls' schools - or change to an entirely co-educational system.

6. 6. Parents nursing private thoughts

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 04 September 2006 PRIVATE school was once solely for the offspring of the wealthy. But more and more parents are now turning their backs on state schools and looking for ways to fund their education.

7. 7. Blair future 'rides on reforms'

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 05 February 2006 TONY Blair's position will be "untenable" if he has to rely on Conservative support to push controversial education reforms through, a Labour former Cabinet minister warned today.

8. 8. Six city primary schools facing axe

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 07 September 2006 SIX schools have been earmarked for closure under a review into the future of primary education in Manchester. Council chiefs are considering plans to shut six primaries with low pupil numbers but plan to build two new ones in the city.

9. 9. Sex offender cleared to work as teacher

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 08 January 2006 A REGISTERED sex offender who was given clearance by Education Secretary Ruth Kelly to work as a teacher later landed a job in a high school, it has emerged.

10. 10. Targets are slowing down our teens

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 October 2006 TOO many targets and too much testing are behind the "major problem" of teenagers failing to engage in education, according to a report. It also found that the "unprecedented" raft of policy initiatives was unlikely to produce significant improvements to the system.

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