We’re all facing a financial meltdown. You can’t open a paper or listen to a news report that doesn’t describe the panic over the economic downturn in our country, with banks needing to be bailed out with billions of pounds because the markets are in chaos. The supermarkets have price wars every week, house prices have dropped and there are ‘for sale’ signs on houses and businesses alike, in every town in the country.

But for one college in Stoke-on-Trent the economic downturn didn’t stop them from preparing to go on a 4 star, £18,000 trip to Marbella for their teacher training course. Or so they thought. I am sure you have heard the story about the proposed trip to the Adalucia Plaza Hotel in Marbella for 80 teachers from Edensor Technology College being grounded when parents got wind of it and complained. The Headteacher from Edensor Technology College, Richard Mercer, commented on the trip saying the function of the trip ‘was to produce materials that would be of benefit to the youngsters’. Finally, sanity prevailed when he cancelled the trip at the 11th hour but maybe he should have looked closer to home for great teaching materials and saved himself the grief!

Budget flights might be cheap, but Teachable’s autumn training courses are FREE and our direct-to-your computer resources now start from just £15 for a pack of 10. Beat that, Easyjet!

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