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        GAP YEARS
        Gapyear.com is your key resource for this but we intend to post more information on this page about this excellent way of staying ahead, finding your direction and working out the right action for you after A Levels.

        Gap years do not need to involve expense. The fastest growing gap years are in the UK and involve work experience- paid or voluntary.

        Look at Year in Industry, IBM, KPMG, Deloitte, PWC, Ernst and Young, Accenture et al for fantastic schemes between leaving school at 18 and going to university.

        Case Study:
        Mr Woodward spent 3 months as a home help in Hammersmith and Fulham on his gap year before working for a Conference Coordination company which took a medical exhibition around the country. He then spent a month in Paris helping compile an Access guide for the Disabled. It was one of the best years of his life and he began his Classics degree at Exeter with a new confidence.