Working Holidays
12 months, 5 continents, 2 friends = 1 ultimate year out
With tough times ahead, Real Gap Experience and i-to-i Volunteering are offering two lucky students the chance to travel the world with guaranteed work placements globally.
Student's Plan B: Travel to Queensland and earn some money
Over 200,000 university applicants will need a Plan B next week as they lose out on an increasingly small number of academic places.
Not all Gap Years have to be a Gap Yah
As A-level results are set to come out, employers and Matt Lacey, of Gap Yah comedy fame, outline why time spent abroad is no bad thing, and how a Gap Year experience can develop qualities required in the work place.
Out to Africa
What is it about Africa that entices travellers to head to this fantastic, enlightening, surprising and intriguing continent?
Bosses taking holiday liberties
A quarter of bosses think it is acceptable to ring employees while they are on holiday, according to new research.
Almighty Australia
Australia, one of the top destinations on the Gap Year circuit, provides volunteers with the opportunity to make a real difference in the flood-affected areas of Queensland and North Eastern New South Wales.
‘Snap year’ gaps go a long way in CV building
If you are leaving school this summer and thinking about taking some time out before university, but not ready to commit to a full Gap year – a mini Snap Year may be more up your street.
Sandals Resorts announces first voluntourism program
Sandals Resorts, in conjunction with The Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), has launched Reading Road Trip, the resort company’s first official voluntourism program.
Gap teaching breaks to Sri Lanka
The Unique Travel Company is offering gap breaks teaching English in schools and orphanages on the tropical Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka from around £550 per person for four weeks or £1,020 for twelve weeks.
Brits ‘too busy’ to volunteer abroad
A straw poll* conducted by leading international volunteering company Projects Abroad, has found that the main barrier holding Brits back from volunteering abroad is the required investment in time.
A new kind of Maldives holiday
A new conservation project has been set up to help preserve the marine environment surrounding the islands of the Maldives archipelago, off the Southern tip of India.
Graduates look overseas as unemployment soars
Job-hungry British graduates are heading overseas in their thousands to escape rising unemployment at home.
Back from the brink of extinction
Gap Adventures has applauded the historic agreement made at the meeting of the UN Convention on Biodiversity to help halt the mass extinction of species.
Improve your skiing & pass on your knowledge
If you're looking to improve your technique on the slopes or wanting to take it one step further by passing your knowledge onto others then have you considered a ski or snowboard instructor course?
Volunteering aboard attracts thousands of young Brits
Recent research from Projects Abroad has shown that last summer they sent over 5,000 volunteers overseas to work on a voluntary project as part of a gap year. In the UK 41 per cent of these were pre-university students and 18 per cent were undergraduates. In total 78 per cent of the total volunteers were between the ages of 16 and 24.