Monthly Archives: December 2013
Gap year regions: Africa, Latin America and Oceania
After a trekking across the northern hemisphere in our last two blog posts on the major gap year regions of the world, today we’re going to finish off our tour by sweeping across Africa, Latin America and Oceania. Africa Africa … … read more
Gap Year Regions: North America and East Asia
On Monday we kicked off a series of blog posts looking at the main regions that attract gap year adventurers. Having started close to home with a look at Europe, today we turn our attentions to North America and East … … read more
Gap year regions: Europe
If you’re in your final year of school and have set your heart on taking a gap year, or are currently on a gap year but as of yet haven’t yet settled on what to do with it between January … … read more
The two main types of CVs
Getting a new job is a key new year’s resolution for many people. Searching new websites for job postings, following the social media profiles for companies you want to work with so you can hear about new opportunities and perhaps … … read more
Easy adventures for gap year ditherers
If you’re currently on a gap year, you may well be reading this from some far-flung corner of the world as you take a breather from the life-changing travelling and/or work experience. Alternatively, you could be in the final stages … … read more
Things to do over the holidays
As the holiday break approaches and you’re gearing up to spend time with friends and family and thinking of things to do over the holidays, the last thing you might want to think about is the future. Then again, if … … read more
Three things to think about when setting up your own business
The idea of setting up your own business can seem like an impossible dream, especially for people who don’t have a huge amount of professional experience. The way the world is presented to us through TV and newspapers tends to … … read more
Useful websites for learning languages
There are some subjects which, although very interesting and essential for helping us to understand the world, can’t be experimented and played around with outside of the classroom. So, for example, while you can study chemistry text books to your … … read more
Tips for choosing a college
If you’re in Year 11 right now, getting ready for next summer’s battle royale against GCSEs is probably the main educational matter on your mind. However, there’s also another question that is also worth bearing in mind over the coming … … read more
The secrets of cutting down a personal statement
Cutting down a personal statement to fit within a very limited word count is a tricky, but very useful skill to have, not only when applying for university but also when you get into writing job applications. So how can … … read more