in Ships
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Down to School in Ships
No need to remain land based hile studying now. You can •uise the South Pacific in a :atson liner while taking any le of eight university lecture turses.
The scheme will be available hen Monterey sails from San ’ancisco in June or her six 3eks round trip to Australia a Islands ports. The courses e designed for school teachers id college students but any ssenger may participate, ibjects offered include history, ychology, comparative litera re and international relations, lere will be four lecturing ofessors aboard.
In March the former British )opship Dunera, 12,615 tons, U be sailing from a UK port her first cruise as a full-time ating school in which UK ildren will learn their sgraphy through visits to eign places. each cruise will last about 3 weeks and will accommodate 3Ut 800 students. Each dent will pay from £2B to , which will include the cost shore trips, study fees, etc. ?he student groups will come m schools all over the UK i each group will be escorted an adult who will pay a ;htly higher fee for better ommodation. The chilren I live in dormitories.
Tiis venture is being or used by the British India npany, owners of the ship, imilar cruises could be profit y organised from Australia 1 New Zealand perhaps?