Monthly Archives: February 2013
#Gapyear adventures: #volunteering abroad with i-to-i
Last week on our blog we kicked off a new series of posts on different gap-year adventure options by looking at the working holiday and volunteering opportunities offered by BUNAC. Today’s post brings us to another of the big players … … read more
#BTECs: another alternative to #Alevels
As anyone who knows anything about teenagers knows, right now fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds up and down the land have only one thing on their mind: what to study after they finish their GCSEs. Although there are all sorts of different … … read more
Careers ideas: #newspaper #journalism
Unless you’re part of that driven, single-minded minority of people who have known exactly what career path they wanted to follow since an age when they couldn’t have possibly even really understood what that job involved, the idea of deciding … … read more
Awesome opportunities with #BUNAC for your #gapyear
Over on our main site we recently put up a spiffing little article about the pros and cons of taking a gap year, which also included some broad suggestions of things you could do were you to take one. Since … … read more
The #International #Baccalaureate: a good alternative to #A-Levels?
It seems that nowadays a week hardly goes by without a flurry of news reports and some sort of hoo-ha about proposed reforms to the English education system. One week GCSEs are being ditched and replaced with O-Levels only for … … read more
Two more great extracurricular activities for #university #students
After our last blog post on Wednesday about exciting and career-enhancing extracurricular activities you can do at university, we had a great response from you, the great studying and working public of this fine nation. In addition to people saying … … read more
Three great extracurricular activities for #university #students
Okay, pipe down. When we say ‘extracurricular activities’ it’s not a euphemism for the sorts of hijinks that students get up to at university. No, these are extracurricular activities in the more traditional sense of things you can do that … … read more
Suggestions for the #summer
Although by this point in February the several months of cold, rain, snow and darkness we have endured makes it tempting to believe that winter will never end, that whole business of how the earth revolves around the sun makes … … read more
Ever thought about being your own boss?
Okay, okay, we know what you’re thinking. You’ve read the title of this blog post and your first reaction was “Has the Leaving School blog become one of those dodgy get-rich-quick scheme sites?” It’s not like that. Though what we’re … … read more
The merits of non-vocational degrees
University courses come in thousands of different shapes and sizes. In some cases, the outcome of studying a course is clear: it will equip you with the specialised knowledge and skills required to perform a particular job. This applies not … … read more