Gap Years in general Reviews

Gap Years are handy for any one who plans to go to universities. If you live on your own especially a gap year can be really helpful to your life. A gap year is basically any one who plans to go to a college or university will take one year off and hold it back to another year before they go back to studying. The only problem is then ...

I would like to write about before my gap year, the gap year and after it in this review. Before After completing school I decided to stay on for sixth form but not been the brightest bulb about I failed my exams after trying my upmost which ruined the career path I had in mind originally. After this I had decided to take a break. Take a ...

For many it is a chance to get away from the monotony of every day life. Do you really want to study for your whole life? Do you really know what you want? I have been lucky enough to live abroad the majority of my life, being home in England I found I wanted to stretch my legs, visit those places I always heard about, or go back to ...

A game of football immediately unites people from different backgrounds. Walk into a village in Ghana with a football and you will soon have 50 young friends screaming at you for the ball. You will experience the same reception if you were to walk into any other village in the country. Football consistently evokes excitement and creates ...

In the developing world, sport is more than competition. It is more than passion. It is a way of life. And as such it bears a heavy influence on the political and social atmosphere of the developing nations. Cricket in India, football in Africa, Rugby in the South Pacific: all have a permeating presence at the heart of their communities, and a ...

The advantages of a gap year are numerous. A perfect time in ones life to experience freedom from studying and the grind of daily routine, see the world, experience the magnitude of cultures that exist around the globe, help others less fortunate than ourselves, and take time to decide which direction you want your life to follow. Many ...

Now in my second year at university, I really am beginning to wish I'd taken a GAP year. There is a lot of scepticism about this option, and many see it as being a lazy way to spend a year - which often it can be. The only time you should EVER consider taking a GAP year is if you know EXACTLY what you want to do in it. Whatever you do, ...

If you want my opinion, taking a year out is the best thing you could possibly do. Whether you spend it working for peanuts in a sweaty office for a company that makes plastic washers or travelling the world in search of your "true self", you'll see the benefit after it's over. It gives you time to think and ...

A gap year will give you more than twelve months advantage on your un-gapped colleagues when you finally get around to resuming your studies. It doesn't have to involve expensive, or indeed shoestring, travel to far flung parts of the world. What about a job down the road? What about walking around all the surviving police telephone boxes in ...

The gap year is normally abused by students I think. They all think its a good idea to have a break between A levels and University. Well, Its not. The 3 people that I counted as my friends that did it all became dossers. They had this great idea about earning some money but really used it as an opt out for a year. They did not motivate ...

I can see the advantages to both sides of this debate. I personally didn't take a gap year because of my course and what i want to do afterwards. At the moment i am on course to graduate with a 2:1 Honours at the age of 21. I did it this way because i want to be in London performing in West End Musicals by the time i'm 24 and ...

I took a Gap Year last year (1999 - 2000), working at an outdoor centre near Kinross in Perthshire, Scotland. When considering whether to do this or not, I found that many people advised me against it; they told me it would be difficult to get back into my studies, and that financially it would make things difficult when I started at University. ...

Having only just started on my Gap Year myself, you may think I have not experienced it enough myself to be able to offer advice to others - but already I have experienced the benefits and disadvantages of taking a Gap Year, and I imagine the beginning of the year will be the hardest time as all my friends seem to have gone off to start new, ...

Gap Years are becoming the choice of an increasing minority of students, giving them experience of the 'real world' before embarking on their years at university. What are the pros and cons of this option? The benefit most often publicised by the various organisations specialising in gap years is a long term one: employers do seem ...

Gap years between A-Levels and University are becoming increasingly more fashionable. Gone are the days where schooling was constant until the age of at least 21. Nowadays enjoy a much more liberal, varied and diverse educational period. Are they beneficial? Well, there are mnay arguments for anmd against, not all of which can be fully ...

One place that students don't often seem to go for advice about gap years are universities, which, very generally speaking, take a very positive view of gap years - with the proviso that students should do something useful. Useful doesn't mean boring - backpacking around the world certainly counts as useful, sitting in front of daytime ...

I have just returned from my Gap Year in Zimbabwe. Well, actually it turned into 2 1/2yrs. At the beginning of my last year in school I decided that I would like to take a year out before going to Uni. My parents agreed with me so I set about looking for an organisation that would give me 12months somewhere in Africa. Not many organisations that I ...

From the moment the brochure came into my sixth form common room I knew I wanted to take a year out between my A-levels and Uni and be an au pair in America. Four years later I still think it was one of the best decisions I ever made - I was fortunate enough to be placed with a great family, only one child living only one hour from the Big Apple. ...

After my A-Levels, I decided that I wanted to take my mind off studying for a while and do something totally different for a while so I went and worked in a Romanian orphanage for a year. As I had an offer for medicine, going to Romania was useful in terms of what I wanted to do with my life after university and the whole experience was ...

I would strongly advise anyone about to go to University to take a gap year. I went straight from school to University and left after three months - I just wasn't ready to be there. I had had enough of education, I had chosen the wrong course and I hated every minute of it. So, I packed it in, got a job, then went away and loved every ...