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A gap year is described as “a semester or year of experiential learning, typically taken after high school, and prior to career or post-secondary education, in order to deepen one’s practical, professional, and personal awareness.” [6] During this time, students engage in various educational, work-related, and developmental activities [7] such as internships, work experience, travel ...
Year On, formerly UnCollege, is an organization which aims to equip students with the tools for self-directed learning and career building. [1] Its flagship program is a yearlong gap year program involving training in work skills and life skills, volunteer service in a foreign country, and internship or personal project.
Lattitude Global Volunteering (formerly GAP Activity Projects) was an international charity established in Reading, Berkshire, in 1972 to provide 17- to 25-year-olds with support to travel outside of their own community, in most cases to other countries, where they spent several months assisting with care or educational projects. [1]
Gapyear.com published the Gap Year Magazine [17] in 2001 and it was distributed to UK universities, colleges and schools until 2012. It was designed to inspire and offer advice about all forms of gap years, covering volunteering, backpacking, working abroad or just taking time out.
Adult gap year: Taking time off work in the midst of your career. Gray gap year: Taking a sabbatical from work when you’re over the age of 50. Family gap year: ...
Hamish & Andy's Gap Year is a Logie Award–winning comedy series following Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, a pair of Australian comedians, on their trips to various international locations. The first season saw the boys visiting America for ten episodes and broadcast their show weekly from New York City .
The Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013 was established by Decision No.1720/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006. [1] It was the single financial instrument available to the Commission for its directly managed education and training policies during the period covered by the European Union's 2007–2013 financial perspective.
Global Citizen Year launched its pilot program in the 2009-10 academic year, as part of which U.S. and United World College students who had finished high school and not yet enrolled in college could participate in the organization's intensive service learning and leadership program, and receive training and mentorship through individualized apprenticeships with Global Citizen Year field staff ...