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  Mind the gap: why fewer students take a year out before university

  Many view travel as luxury they can do without in these financially difficult times

  • 'I had to run away without getting paid'

Most recent

• Response: Gap years don't have to involve foreign travel or be unaffordable

  Nov 19 2008:

  Response: Many students take work placements in Britain, earning money and gaining contacts, says Chris Ward

• Projects abroad fill a gap in understanding

  Nov 11 2008:

  Letters: Tanya Gold makes much of gap-year students' supposed love for martyrdom, but sadly only tells half of the story

• Gap-year students are just misery tourists mixing with The Poor because it looks good on Facebook

  Nov 6 2008:

  Tanya Gold: They clog up the internet with their whining. 'No one met me at the airport!' they squeal

• The knowledge gap

  Sep 6 2008:

  Planning to take a year out? There have never been more opportunities to sample new experiences, says Julie Ferry - and it's a chance to impress potential employers too

• Postcards from the edge

  Aug 16 2008:

  We asked readers to tell us their gap-year tales. Here is our pick of the best

• What kind of journey suits you?

  Aug 16 2008:

  Not sure if you'd be happier with a round-the-world ticket or a cheap day return and a packed lunch? Take our personality test to help you decide

• Surfing safari

  Aug 16 2008:

  Whether you're thinking of spending your gap year volunteering in the UK or abroad, combining travel with paid work, or simply grabbing your backpack and heading for the sun, we pick the groups that can help you find your way

• Walking tall with no footprint

  Aug 16 2008:

  So you want to go out and save the world. Can you do it without damaging the planet?

• Be an entrepreneur

  Aug 16 2008:

  An idea that was big enough to go out on its own

• Prepare for your career

  Aug 16 2008:

  'I was blown away by working with these kids'

• Hands up if you want to be useful

  Aug 16 2008:

  A growing number of students feel their time off before university should be spent doing something
  worthwhile instead of throwing on a backpack and clocking up air miles. We look at some of the options

• Parents warn of gap-year perils

  Jul 13 2008:

  Calls are made for more checks on specialist companies after the death of a 17-year-old

• Taking a year out? Mind the financial gap

  Jul 5 2008:

  In the buzz of planning a globetrotting trip make time for the practicalities, urges Jill Papworth

• China doubles the price of its tourist visas ahead of Olympics

  Jun 28 2008:

  Communist state 'outsources' operations and adds to the entry difficulties for travellers and gap-year students. Rupert Jones reports

• Five best ... gap year projects

  Jun 21 2008:

  Swimming, Fiji | Journalism, Mongolia | Zoo project, Argentina | Climate change, Canada | Street children, Kenya

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