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Article: One year to conquer the world - EDUCATION 2001; Taking a gap-year can not only give you valuable life skills, it can also help you get into university.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2001
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Byline: ALEX HANNAFORD
IF a recent article in The Times is to be believed, gap-years are an indulgence from which you return with "tall tales of mind-numbing banality and a wardrobe full of ethnic tat". The article's author says, "The really grownup thing to do is to get a life and opt out of gapping".
If you want to go straight to university, get a job, and work nine-to-five, five days a week, then spend each weekend thinking "weekends just aren't long enough", then do as The Times suggests.
If, however, you want to spend a year between school and university getting valuable skills which will get you ahead in life, then consider taking ...