The Daily Mail – Laura Devaney
“Parents should forego beach holidays and instead use their money to send their children on a foreign exchange, a leading headmistress has suggested. Caroline Jordan, the new president of the Girls’ Schools Association, said educational visits may be a better use of family finances as they enable children to be ‘absorbed’ in a culture. She added that youngsters are likely to learn more by staying with a family in a city such as Madrid or Barcelona than they are sitting on a beach. Mrs Jordan, who is headmistress of £15,000-a-year Headington School, Oxford, added that more interaction with children in other countries could help address declining take-up of languages in schools.”(more)