'Gap year' related UK press for 2007

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SKY News
Gap Year For Older Generation: New Breed Of Traveller
30th December
A new breed of travellers is emerging, determined to trade the daily grind for adventure overseas.The classic candidate for a gap year tends to be a teenager heading off to see the world before knuckling down to a degree course but now ...
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EDP 24
Catherine's gap year trip to Cambodia
20th December
Catherine Sutherland is hoping to use her gap year before university to undertake social work and help teach children on behalf of the educational charity ...
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Times Online
Your top ten travel travel health questions
12th December
Top tips for gap year health - mother of two teenagers Jane Owen, one of our Times Online family experts, offers advice to parents and gap year students on ...
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Times Online
Your top ten travel insurance questions
11th December
Gap year travel insurance - Alex Rae has been out of the UK for more than six months and can't find a company that will insure her in Australia 5. ...
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Visa Bureau
British students taking up Australian working holiday visas ...
6th December
Young people are not deterred by high university fees but increasingly choose to work abroad during their gap year, according to Gapyear.com. ...
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This is Money
Your guide to getting rid of the mortgage
2nd December
They dream of taking a 'gap' year and travelling around Europe. The couple, in their early 50s, decided two months ago to start overpaying....
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Devon 24
Lisa wants to help during her gap year
28th November
LISA Buckingham wants to make a difference during her gap year and is planning a six-month trip to Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda to do charity work. ...
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Mirror.co.uk
Good guide to gap year safety
19th November
Up to 200000 youngsters between 18 to 25 from the UK are currently overseas as part of a gap year or exchange programme. And although they're statistically ...
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Telegraph
TV on the web: who will pay for it?
15th November
The Gap Year will hit computer screens in 2008, and will chart the fortunes of six hand-picked Bebo-ers as they backpack around the world. ...
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Guardian
Online drama proves a lucrative hit
12th November
The Gap Year is online social network Bebo's third original content commission in six months; part of a bold strategy raising eyebrows among ...
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Times Online
When push comes to shove
10th November
She explains: "In Seb's gap year he decided not to take up his place to read law at Bristol because he wanted to stay in London near his girlfriend and to ...
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Telegraph
Sandi Toksvig: a gap month was all I ever got
4th November
My eldest child has reached the age at which she is shortly to pack up her troubles in an old kitbag and head off for a 'gap year'. ...
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ic Wales
Teenagers plan to use gap year to earn, not travel
1st November
ONE in five Welsh teenagers who left sixth form earlier this summer is taking a gap year, a survey shows. Most will spend the year earning money to help pay ...
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ic Wales
Sixth-formers are learning about building a career
24th October
"Whether they choose to take a gap year, continue into higher education, or enter employment straight after completing sixth form, the students will have ...
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Holiday News Direct
Gap year no longer means travel
18th October
To many people gap year is a synonym for travelling. But recent survey by NatWest found that gap year is now more likely to mean taking a year out to work and save money for university, than taking the time off to travel...
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ic Wales
Fewer take a gap year
17th October
MORE than half of school leavers are scrapping plans to go on a globetrotting gap year and instead are working to save cash to pay for university life...
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Daily Mail
Gap years fall out of favour as students opt to work instead
15th October
The findings suggest last year's hike in university tuition fees to £3000-a-year is putting paid to gap year travels for many sixth-formers....
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Times Online
Graduate debt falls for first time since 2000
14th August
Mark Worthington, Head of Student Banking at NatWest, says: "Our findings this year show that over half of school leavers that choose to take a gap year...
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FAMOUS GAPPERS: 2007
Every year there are a few celebs and well know people who take gap years. See below for the current list and reference to articles where they are discussed:
WAG: Mel Slade, Theo Walcott's girlfriend >>
Princess Beatrice >>
Actor: Matthew Beard >>
Singer: Natasha Storm >>

========================= This is London
UK Government agenda
9th September
Cameron offers gap year cash bonus to 16 -year-olds who complete 'national service'...
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