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Archived travel related articles in the mediaUK Budget flights boost GCSE Spanish. A boom in budget flights to the Costas has led to a surge of nearly 7 per cent in the number of pupils studying Spanish at school, compared with a sharp drop in other languages ...More from the TimesCollege tour piles on possibilities. The bus rolled down sticky summer highways, past the hulking shipyards of Philadelphia and the lush lawns of the Main Line suburbs, yet its young passengers barely glanced out, their weary eyes sunk into required reading or the stacks of glossy brochures that chronicled their trip thus far ...More from the Washington Post UK parents offered holiday discounts. Families are being offered discounts from travel agents if they take holidays outside term-time, under a new scheme ...More from the BBC Action over term-time holidays. A growing number of parents are taking their children away on holiday during the school term, education welfare officers warn ...More from the BBC 5000 local, national and international events are now being added to ed-u.com every week. Already ed-u.com brings you huge amounts of information about every country in the world, but now it goes one step further. We now bring you 10,000s of up-to-date local, national and international events! ...More from ed-u.com - Internal Link 'Poorly paid' British teachers admit they have enough cash. A new survey shows most teachers feel they have enough money and take at least two foreign holidays a year. The findings contrast with the popular image of teaching as a poorly-paid profession. Seven out of 10 teachers in the survey admitted they're 'comfortably off' and nine out of 10 own their own home ...More from Ananova Good behaviour pupils could get Disneyland reward. Teenagers could be given trips to Disneyland as a reward for good behaviour at school under a new scheme. They could also pick up tickets for football and cricket matches. The £1 million ($1.5 million) scheme in Southwark, London will see 8,000 11 to 15-year-olds issued with "smartcards" which contain a microchip and record of their attendance ...More from Ananova Japanese students offered free flights and trips to join courses. Japanese students are being offered free flights, computers and overseas trips to sign up for courses. Universities are locked in an increasingly competitive battle to attract students. Japan's falling birth rate means there aren't enough students to fill places ...More from Ananova UK gap year students on the rise. Researchers have found the number of young people in the UK taking a gap year between school and university has jumped. Numbers are up by nearly 15% compared with this time last year ...More from Ananova London tours offered from four-poster bed. A man is offering tourists the chance to see London on a motorised four-poster bed. Edd China charges £100 a person for a three-hour guided tour. He takes in a number of sights including Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Horseguards Parade and Kensington Palace ...More from Ananova Thumbs Up for Internet Traveler. A Dutch student traveling the world courtesy of people he meets over the Internet has stayed in palaces, castles and first-class hotels. But he's stuck in Europe with few prospects of getting farther afield ...More from Wired News Swim celebrating clean water cancelled over pollution fears. A mile-long swim in Boston celebrating the city's clean beaches and waters has been called off because of pollution fears ...More from Ananova Youth's wasted year. Taking a year off to explore the world before university broadens the mind. Nonsense, it's merely a pretentious excuse to loaf around ...More from the Times Round-the-world trip ends in farce as tourist refuses to pay entrance fee. An 82-year-old Australian who travelled to Norway to visit a tourist attraction refused to go in when he found it charged an entrance fee ...More from Ananova Teachers advised to boycott trips. Teachers are being advised not to take part in school trips because of the increasing risks of prosecution when things go wrong. The rise of the "blame culture" means many teachers face losing their jobs if a pupil in their care is injured or killed, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers warns ...More from the BBC ed-u.com brings you the World! ed-u.com has just got a whole lot bigger. We have added hundreds of more pages, covering every single country and geographic area in the world. Ever wondered what the percentage of the richest and poorest people were in each country? The literacy rate in Liechtenstein or the language of Latvia? Whatever you need to know about the World around you, we have the answer. We have included maps and flags, statistics, products, military information, wars, drug production figures and much, much more ...More from ed-u.com - Internal Link Second thoughts about school outings. How many anxious parents are right now worrying whether they should have agreed to their sons and daughters going on the school trip? How many teachers are nervously re-checking the government safety guidelines on school visits? ...More from the BBC A foreign jail is nowhere to spend a student vacation. Some young people who travel abroad for the first time, or even the second, think they're infallible, invincible. Often what they are is arrogant--and just plain stupid ...More from the Chicago Tribune Hitching a World-Wide Ride on Web A penniless student plans to travel the world and has created a website to persuade people around the globe to put him up for free... More from Wired News World Wide Events. The global mega-listing of forthcoming events in 23 countries around the world has relaunched. Head teachers around the World regularly trawl the pages of this serial award winning site looking for the elusive original idea for their next event... More at World Wide Events Cruising New Zealand With Commentary GPS technology offers travelers bumming around New Zealand commentary on local customs, history, and hot tourist attractions -- all based on their coordinates. Kim Griggs reports from Wellington, New Zealand. ...More from Wired News
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