Make up your mind

Confidence

Persistence

To trust

A founder

A volunteer

To conduct a survey

Faint-hearted

Isolated

A fee

Overseas

To work on a project

People who take a year out before

going to university and use that time to gain

more skills are more attractive candidates for

jobs than those who go straight from school

to university, according to the research for the

Department for Education.

There are many reasons

why there is a growing number of

students who take a gap year.

There are those who don't feel they

want to do something useful with their lives and there are thos e

who don't want to get away from home and see the world while they can .

There are school-leavers who are

happy to be out of the school

system at last and want to have

some time to do something

interesting or crazy before they go

back into the educational system.

School-leavers can

choose from a wide range of

activities for their gap year.