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3 unusual facts about Gap year


Equatorial College School

It maintains strong links with its sister school, University College School in London, from which it receives funds, resources and a steady stream of gap year students.

Gap year

In 1978, the Prince of Wales and Colonel John Blashford-Snell began what is now known as Raleigh International by launching Operation Drake, an expedition voyage around the world following Sir Francis Drake's route.

Tzvika Gottlieb

Gottlieb had postponed his IDF service in order to volunteer for a year Shnat-Shirut (Gap year) working with the Bedouins in the Negev, later going on to serve 3 years in the IDF.


Mike Gapes

Except for a spell as a VSO teacher in Swaziland in a gap year before attending university in 1972, and a few months working as an administrator at the Middlesex Hospital in 1976, he has worked entirely in full time politics either for the Labour Party or as an elected Member of Parliament.

Tōya, Hokkaido

The locality has yearly Gap Year volunteers from the UK sent by the organization Project Trust, that worked with the local Board of Education to help teach English to the local residents, both old and young.


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Celia Wade-Brown

After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham.

George Christopher Nash

He then took a gap year in 2007/08 where he coached rowing in Melbourne at Scotch College.