A UGANDAN student has been visiting Tavistock College this week, to learn more about life in Britain.

The visit continues the ties established last year between the College and a school in Uganda.

Miss Namagambe Ida from Ndeeba secondary school in Uganda is the first student to visit Tavistock, along with the school geography teacher Mr Nantagya Grace.

Ida was chosen to represent her school as head girl and Mr Grace, as a geography teacher, found the visit of great interest.

A very full programme was arranged for them with mornings in college followed by afternoon excursions concentrating on local geographical and socio-economic features.

The pair will visit a typical Dartmoor hill farm, as well as being shown coastal erosion in North Cornwall, inner city industrial areas and suburbs in Plymouth and deciduous woodland ecosystems at Yarner Wood.

'We wanted to give them as broad and comprehensive a programme as possible, in the short time they had with us,' commented a college spokesman.

Ndeeba secondary school in Kayunga, Uganda, is one of Tavistock's partner schools, and reciprocal visits between staff at the schools have been organised.

College Principal John Simes along with Head of English, Mike Beer will visit Ndeeba next month and will write on their experience for the Times.