Gap Year

Engineers Without Borders is a student led organisation which has projects across the developing world

Building a better world

Alice Piggott joined the Engineers Without Borders to help others.

Inside Gap Year

Gap year: Prepare to go the extra mile

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Whether it’s to expand your horizons or your contacts book, there’s likely to be a gap year itinerary to suit you.

An inspiring gap year

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Chrissie Stockting, 22, graduated from Southampton University last year with a degree in music. Earlier this year, she became a Raleigh International Venturer in a team of 120 volunteers and spent 10 weeks in Tampasak, a small village in Malaysian Borneo. She tells us why ‘potential employers are noticeably impressed’ by her time off.

Gap-year travel: 'We were lucky to get out alive. But I'm glad I went'

Sunday, 20 April 2008

No one watching the news this week can fail to have been moved by the deaths of five young British women in Ecuador. The four teenage gap-year students and their team leader were travelling to the village of Puerto Lopez, where they were to build sanitation and a crèche for the villagers. They never arrived: their bus was hit by a lorry. After the terrible news reached Britain, families and friends spoke of their loss. Perhaps most poignant was the selfless reaction of Robin Logie, father of Rebecca, 19: "We do not want other young people to be put off going on gap-year experiences because of this. Thousands of people go travelling and do this kind of thing – this was just an accident. People, parents get scared; they want to protect their kids, but these adventures are so important."

Civil and environmental engineering – making a difference

Wednesday, 2 April 2008

David Dalgado, 23, is in the final year of a degree in civil and environmental engineering at Imperial College London. He decided to pursue a career in civil engineering to try to make a difference in developing countries.

Sooner or later?

Thursday, 28 February 2008

Many students take up the option of doing a gap year, and one of the main decisions is whether to take it before or after university or college. If you decide to take it beforehand, it’s important to indicate that you want to apply for deferred entry when you are picking your institution on your Ucas form. Here we take a look at how to get yourself organised…

On top of the world

Thursday, 28 February 2008

Chalet girl Julia Drake explains why a ski season exceeded all her expectations - and prepared her for university life.

Gap year: How to make your year out count

Thursday, 25 October 2007

Whatever stage you're at, taking a year off to do something different can be one of the best times of your life. But it's all too easy to let that year slip by. The key to getting the most out of your time is planning, and now's the time to start.

Don't let a year out leave a gap in your finances

Saturday, 18 August 2007

With a university place secured and deferred for a year, hordes of school-leavers will be preparing to pack their rucksacks and head off to far-flung corners of the globe – as will many graduates planning one last bit of freedom before settling in to the world of work.

Opting to take a gap year need not be a hassle

Thursday, 16 August 2007

Many students take up the option of doing a gap year, and one of the main decisions is whether to take it before or after university or college. If you decide to take it beforehand, it's important to indicate that you want to apply for deferred entry when you are picking your institution on your UCAS form. Here we take a look at how to get yourself organised...

Gap-year volunteers hinder genuine foreign aid work

Tuesday, 14 August 2007

A leading British charity has said the trend among students using their gap years to take part in voluntary work overseas is not helping - and in some cases hindering - aid projects in developing countries.

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