[ General Advice ]

Scotland - Perfect holiday destination

From breathtaking scenery and wild, wide open spaces to stunning cities, engaging festivals and haunting history, Scotland has everything you could ask of a holiday destination. The beauty of the country is that it’s small enough to make everything accessible but big enough to provide a stunning array of options which would take a lifetime of holidays to discover.

[ Australia ]

Australia Gap Year Information: Go Down Under With STA Travel

Australia is a must-see for anyone taking time out. A land of beaches, barbeques and beers, Oz has been attracting a steady stream of backpackers and round the world travellers for years. Australia has it all – cosmopolitan cities, rugged coastlines, incredible wildlife, the Great Barrier Reef, mountain ranges and of course the endless desert of the outback.

[ Gap Year Sections ]

Australia Gap Year Information: Go Down Under With STA Travel

Australia is a must-see for anyone taking time out. A land of beaches, barbeques and beers, Oz has been attracting a steady stream of backpackers and round the world travellers for years. Australia has it all – cosmopolitan cities, rugged coastlines, incredible wildlife, the Great Barrier Reef, mountain ranges and of course the endless desert of the outback.

[ Gap Year Sections ]

Volunteer with a medical placement

I have always thought I would probably take a gap year. A lot of the older teenagers I knew took them so it has always been part of my consciousness. I made the final decision on an Open Day at Leeds University. I became suddenly aware of the rat race I was in along with the 20,000 other people there and knew that I needed a year out, especially seeing as the medical course is so long.

[ General Advice ]

How to have...a fulfilling gap year with no gaps in it

Every student worth their salt knows a gap year is the chance to take a break from endless study and concentrate the imagination on subjects of far more worldly interest than anything found within an exam paper.Every student worth their salt knows a gap year is the chance to take a break from endless study and concentrate the imagination on subjects of far more worldly interest than anything found within an exam paper.

[ Australia ]

Austailian Adventures

Twenty year-old, Caroline Cook from Suffolk headed off in search of sun, surf and a whole lot more on Work Australia.

[ General Advice ]

Look Forward to Summer 2005 - BUNAC

Working on a children’s summer camp in the USA is a popular and low cost way of spending a summer working abroad.  However many peoples initial reaction is… ‘American kids….NO!’

[ South America | Conservation Work ]

Boost your conservation knowledge on a gap year

Each year hundreds of volunteers join Coral Cay Conservation (CCC) to assist in conserving fragile and exotic tropical marine and terrestrial environments...

[ Africa | Conservation Work ]

Conservation Gap Year in Southern Africa

The Challenge of an African Conservation Educational Work Experience. For enthusiastic young people wanting to do conservation work on Game and Nature Reserves in Southern Africa, African Conservation Experience arranges voluntary placements for 1 – 3 months. Volunteers can gain valuable practical experience by working side by side with conservationists and rangers on an Educational Work Experience.

[ General Advice ]

Take the Gap Year Challenge

Now is the time of year when many 15-18 year olds start thinking about a gap year and the opportunities it may hold for them, and they need to know the merits of the various options open to them.

[ General Advice ]

Mind the Gap with Bunac - Gap Year Guide

If you ’re looking to make your year out the best ever, at some stage you’ll probably find yourself sifting through a minefield of information.What ’s the best thing to do? How will it have a real impact on your future? If you’re looking to spend time overseas, you might be wondering how to obtain a visa, where should you work and more importantly, how will you survive?

[ Australia ]

Gap Year in Australia - Australian Profile - BUNAC

Sarah Delaney from Nottingham, took part in Work Australia during her year out before starting university. She found that it gave her the opportunity to do something constructive with her gap year and came home with solid work experience, a bunch of new friends, a fantastic tan and a host of stories to take to university with her.