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Contest: Win a luxury trip to Africa

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Sep 25, 2008 / 0 comments

Wandering Educators - here's a contest with a great travel prize - click on the link to enter daily.

 

African Luxury Trip Contest

 

 

Here’s your chance to enter a great travel sweepstakes with a phenomenal grand prize—an all-expense, luxury hotel accommodation-included 11-day trip for 2 to Africa that includes:

TOEFL Grants for Doctoral Research in Foreign Lang Assessment

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Sep 23, 2008 / 0 comments

TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language
Assessment

TESOL in partnership with TOEFL sent a reminder that the deadline for

Goldman Sachs International Excellence Grants, K-12

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Sep 23, 2008 / 0 comments

The Goldman Sachs Foundation Prizes for Excellence in International
Education
2008 Call for Applications

Free Georgian Language Course Online

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Sep 07, 2008 / 0 comments

Interested in less-commonly taught languages? Georgian is a very difficult language to find learning resources for. Here's one!

 

Volunteer Opportunities: Unite for Sight

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Aug 22, 2008 / 0 comments

Unite For Sight's High Impact Volunteer Abroad Opportunities: As Featured Weekly On CNN International and Recently in The New York Times

NFT Travel Guides: Bodegas & Muji

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Aug 19, 2008 / 2 comments

One of our partners, Not For Tourists, has several unique offerings on their website this week. Check out the following highlights...

 

 

If Proust's Madeleine Were A Twinkie, by Rebecca Katherine Hirsch

CARLA looking for volunteer language experts

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Aug 12, 2008 / 0 comments

CARLA notes: We need your expertise!

As some of you may know, the CARLA LCTL project maintains a webpage of VOLUNTEER experts -- kind and enthusiastic souls who are willing to answer email questions about their languages.

A Unique Travel Blog: Nerd's Eye View

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Aug 03, 2008 / 0 comments

Free Mandarin Audio Phrasebook from Lonely Planet

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Jul 31, 2008 / 1 comments

Always on the lookout for deals for our wandering educators, we recently learned of a new promotion by one of our partners, Lonely Planet.

Context Travel Fellowship for Inner-City Youths

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Jul 30, 2008 / 1 comments


Context Travel Fellowship Offers Unparalleled Learning Opportunities
for Inner-City Youths


Innovative travel company partners with St. HOPE to offer six-day
travel fellowships to high-achieving inner-city youth

Context, the network of scholars who design and lead critically-
acclaimed walking tours of major world cities, has partnered with St. HOPE to offer a one-of-a-kind travel fellowship aimed at youth achievers from economically-disadvantaged communities.

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