Article: Students: we're all too scared to take a gap year and too skint

Article: Make your gap year mo ore than just a holiday; ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... SARAH RICHARDSON THE GAP year has had some bad press ... world view, like the young people featured on these pages. Many companies offer gap-year experiences and all claim ... s been working in the gap year industry he's only ...

Article: Bye, darling. Have fun; For many young people, a ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... available. It is alarming how many young people who arrive in Goa believe the drugs ... mushrooms), put an average of two young people a month into hospital for psychiatric ... well-off and bored," says gap year traveller Polly Banks. Another ...

Article: NEW HORIZONS; Gap year opens up a world of ...
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  August 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... spending three months of her gap year inter-railing through ... growing army of inquisitive young people who want to broaden their ... option - many now take a gap year to earn enough money ... university. And once the gap year was complete she was ...

Article: Thousands more young people go for the gap ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  September 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... students are taking a gap year between school and university ... 694 students will take a gap year, up from 23,460 last ... Experts say the majority of young people simply want to grab their ... growing sections of the gap-year community are people earning ...

Article: the essential checklist Young people who are taking ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... days will have persuaded many students to change their plans, perhaps defer their university places until 2006, and take a gap year. And for those students who fear they may have left it too late to organise anything worthwhile, the good news is that there ...

Article: My year abroad of living dangerously; As thousands of ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... was Sarah who, unlike me, was taking a gap year having already graduated. We had been ... eventually made it home. MY POST A-level gap year was always going to be a challenge, yet ... chaos. People can be quick to dismiss the gap year as a soft option for pampered kids - mummy ...

Article: Farewell to Svalbard: Mark Evans writes his final entry from the ...
Geographical;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...With the summer solstice behind us, and reindeer calves now wobbling their way around the tundra, our journey around the sun is almost at an end. On arrival last summer the first group of ten young explorers were greeted with mud, water, 24-hour daylight and hundreds of geese grazing on the tundra.