Yeesh…
I’d make damn sure you take your passport in any case.
Is it really worth the risk of not being let back in…
> The nation’s ambassador to the UK, Miguel Berger, said high levels of English spoken across the world should not stop Brits learning another language.
We should stop teaching German and French to children just as a matter of course (ie, across the board rather than as an elective). Almost everywhere that speaks one of them is a place you can get by pretty well with English. If we’re going to teach foreign languages to students across the board we should at least pick those that have more significant utility to typical travellers to places they’re used.
But actually I’d use the time and resources to teach BSL to everyone – as well as being extremely helpful to the deaf/hard of hearing (including those who become so later in life) it would also have significant utility to typical people eg in noisy environments and other situations where the other person can’t easily be heard.
We will rejoin the customs Union and single market in the next 2 to 5 years.
> Post-Brexit red tape is making school exchange programmes to Europe more difficult, prompting the need for a scheme that could see British pupils able to visit Germany without a passport
the eu really should get on this for the continental members imo. perhaps just the more centralised ones
If I took no passport my anxiety disorder would be going rampant all the way there (?and back?)
It’s a good little scheme if you are fed up with your kids I suppose.
Then “British kids” could return without passports too?
And on the way back to the UK? Yes, these are 400 British secondary school pupils, despite their similarity to middle aged Albanian gangsters, of course they don’t have their passports.
Oh look selling a positive what we all had for the whole of the EU now restricted to children going to one member state.
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Yeesh…
I’d make damn sure you take your passport in any case.
Is it really worth the risk of not being let back in…
> The nation’s ambassador to the UK, Miguel Berger, said high levels of English spoken across the world should not stop Brits learning another language.
We should stop teaching German and French to children just as a matter of course (ie, across the board rather than as an elective). Almost everywhere that speaks one of them is a place you can get by pretty well with English. If we’re going to teach foreign languages to students across the board we should at least pick those that have more significant utility to typical travellers to places they’re used.
But actually I’d use the time and resources to teach BSL to everyone – as well as being extremely helpful to the deaf/hard of hearing (including those who become so later in life) it would also have significant utility to typical people eg in noisy environments and other situations where the other person can’t easily be heard.
We will rejoin the customs Union and single market in the next 2 to 5 years.
> Post-Brexit red tape is making school exchange programmes to Europe more difficult, prompting the need for a scheme that could see British pupils able to visit Germany without a passport
the eu really should get on this for the continental members imo. perhaps just the more centralised ones
If I took no passport my anxiety disorder would be going rampant all the way there (?and back?)
It’s a good little scheme if you are fed up with your kids I suppose.
Then “British kids” could return without passports too?
And on the way back to the UK? Yes, these are 400 British secondary school pupils, despite their similarity to middle aged Albanian gangsters, of course they don’t have their passports.
Oh look selling a positive what we all had for the whole of the EU now restricted to children going to one member state.