Travel Education Courses
Mohawk College, in cooperation with Ship's School Educational Tours, offers a wide variety of educational tours to everyone who loves to travel and experience the many cultures around the world.
Detailed itineraries for most of our tours are ready now; for the others, we will be happy to send you the details as soon as they are ready. For a list of our upcoming tours, please refer to our current Continuing Education catalogue or contact Susan Bowinkelmann, Program Manager.
HISTORY OF SHIP'S SCHOOL EDUCATION TOURS
School travel is a long-standing tradition in Britain. It was a favourite practice in the past to fly a whole class to the Mediterranean, board a "classroom ship" and do a week's touring, with formal classes onboard and field trips and sightseeing ashore. This concept was brought to Canada in the mid-sixties and Ship's School organized then what was probably the first major overseas tour for a Canadian School. Ship's School has been serving the travel needs of Canadian Teachers and their students, all grades including college and university, ever since. All tours are individually constructed to suit the specific needs of the group.
Ship's School, founded in Canada by Norbert Pauwels and a colleague, was merged later with Pauwels Travel Bureau and is now a division of that Company. Sandra Pauwels, daughter of the founder is the manager and she is supported by a very capable, experienced, and expanding team.
HIGHLIGHT
Jacques Pauwels, Ph.D, historian, author, lecturer.
Born and raised in Belgium, Jack began conducting tours of Europe at a very young age. While still in his twenties Jack moved to Canada and enrolled at the University of Toronto where he completed his Ph.D. in history and has recently completed his second doctorate in political science. Today, Dr. Pauwels lives in Brantford and is busy organizing educational tours for institutions such as: the U .of T., the R.O.M, the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo, and also the A.G.O. You will find in most cases, Jack has designed your Ship's School tour and/or is your tour leader.
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