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Gap Year Choices
An increasing number of pupils now take a gap year between school and university for a variety of reasons which include gaining work experience, earning money, travelling and personal challenges and goal-setting.
The Careers & Higher Education Department has information about many organisations which offer gap year programmes and the accumulated experience of former pupils enables the College to recount those experiences and be well placed to offer impartial guidance about the opportunities available and appropriate choices that a particular pupil might make based on genuine feedback.
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Lydia Thurlow OM, chose a Gap Year teaching work placement with an association called Amesip in Salé in north-western Morocco at a small school for street-children. Lydia went on to study French and Philosophy at Bristol University, and is now working for 33Seconds, a creative communications agency in London.
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