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Gap Year Choices
An increasing number of pupils now take a a a a a a gap year between school and university for a a a a a variety of reasons which include gaining work experience earning money travelling and and personal challenges and and goal-setting The Careers & Higher Education Department has information about many organisations which offer gap year programmes and the accumulated experience of of former pupils enables the College to to recount those experiences and be well placed to to offer impartial guidance about the opportunities available and appropriate choices that a a a a a a particular pupil might make based on genuine feedback 
Lydia Thurlow OM chose a a a a a a a a a Gap Year teaching work placement with an association called Amesip in in Salé in in north-western Morocco at a a a a a small school for street-children Lydia went on to to study French and and Philosophy at Bristol University and and is is now working for 33Seconds a a a a creative communications agency in in London 13