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- Ayearout.com - Gap year travel options for students or persons wanting to take a year off to explore. Highlights various volunteer, learning, and touring organisations available.
www.ayearout.com
- BBC News - More students opt for 'gap year' - Students are increasingly taking a "gap year" before beginning university, say admissions authorities.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_923000/923486.stm
- BBC News - Talking Point - Are gap years a waste of time? - Discussion on the pro's and con's of gap years.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1496000/1496182.stm
- Gap Year Jobs - Directory of employment opportunities particularly suitable for students taking a gap year.
www.gapyearjobs.co.uk
- GapwWork - Casual work abroad for backpackers, travellers and students in Australia and Europe as well as Ibiza. Information on working holiday visas, tours, travel insurance, flights and health matters.
www.gapwork.com
- Go Gap - Guide for anyone thinking of using a GAP year to travel. Details the adventures of four students as they carried out budget travels around the world. Messages boards and country guides.
www.gogap.com
- Guardian Unlimited - Gap years - Informational resource on most aspects of a gap year.
travel.guardian.co.uk/gapyears
- Payaway - News, features and listings for finding paid and voluntary seasonal jobs abroad, including tourism, childcare, camp, kibbutz and winter jobs.
www.payaway.co.uk
- Springboard Gap Year Information - Travel advice, the advantages and disadvantages of gap years, and information on potential destinations.
www.springboard.co.uk/gap.cfm
- The Gap Year Guidebook - Provides information relating to work and travel opportunities for students during this period.
www.gap-year.com
- The Site - Gap Years - Gap year information from the Duke of Edinburgh's award site.
www.thesite.org/info/careers/gap_year
- Voluntary Work Information Service - Information on volunteer work opportunities in over 150 countries worldwide in the environmental and humanitarian sectors.
www.workingabroad.com
- Volunteer Africa - Directory and information on voluntary and gap-year projects in Africa.
www.volunteerafrica.org
- World Service Enquiry - Information and advice about working overseas and at home for peace, justice and development.
www.wse.org.uk
- GapYear.Com - Comprehensive gap year information site.
www.gapyear.com
- The Year Out Group - Packed with information for your year out or gap year and is supported by UCAS and DfEE. Lists student guidelines, providers, advisor information and contact details.
www.yearoutgroup.org
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