Is there educational value in a €1,600 school skiing trip?
Most second-level schools now organise overseas tours for students. But many question if they are too expensive and have any educational value
Parents are placed under increasing pressure to fork out large sums for elaborate and expensive school trips abroad. Photo: iStock
When I was a child, our school trips were purely for educational purposes. I still have memories of foraging on the Burren and, less fragrantly, enduring a tour of a cheese factory in Cork.