Author : Joseph O'Shea
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 1421410362
The idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since its development in Britain nearly fifty years ago, taking time off between secondary school and college has allowed students the opportunity to travel, develop crucial life skills, and grow up, all while doing volunteer work in much-needed parts of the developing world.
Author : Karl Haigler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0312336985
That complements the college-application process, communicating with students about their goals, and handling logistics such as travel, health insurance, and money.
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Publisher : UNICORN CONGLOMERATE
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0620817569
THE BOOK IS SPECIALLY TARGETED TO PRIMARY AND HIGH SCHOOL LEARNERS, SPECIFICALLY GRADE 12S, AND TEACHERS. IT IS BASICALLY TO SAY IT'S OKAY TO TAKE A GAP YEAR. IT MAY NOT BE BY CHOICE BUT DUE TO CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS TO ADVICE GRADE 12S TO RELAX AND ALLOW GOD TO TAKE OVER AND TO KNOW THAT THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE DURING THE COURSE OF THE GAP YEAR.
Author : Robin Mamlet
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 0307590321
College Admission is the ultimate user's manual and go-to guide for any student or family approaching the college application process. Featuring the wise counsel of more than 50 deans of admission, no other guide has such thorough, expert, compassionate, and professional advice. Let’s be honest: applying to college can be stressful for students and parents. But here’s the good news: you can get in. Robin Mamlet has been dean of admission at three of America's most selective colleges, and journalist and parent Christine VanDeVelde has been through the process first hand. With this book, you will feel like you have both a dean of admission and a parent who has been there at your side. Inside this book, you'll find clear, comprehensive, and expert answers to all your questions along the way to an acceptance letter: • The role of extracurricular activities • What it means to find a college that's the "right fit" • What's more important: high grades or tough courses • What role does testing play • The best candidates for early admission • When help from parents is too much help • Advice for athletes, artists, international students, and those with learning differences • How wait lists work • Applying for financial aid This will be your definitive resource during the sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school.
Author : Michael B. Horn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1119570115
Cut through the noise and make better college and career choices This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the information and context they need to make such a high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education. Choosing College strips away the noise to help you understand why you’re going to school. What's driving you? What are you trying to accomplish? Once you know why, the book will help you make better choices. The research in this book illustrates that choosing a school is complicated. By constructing more than 200 mini-documentaries of how students chose different postsecondary educational experiences, the authors explore the motivations for how and why people make the decisions that they do at a much deeper, causal level. By the end, you’ll know why you’re going and what you’re really chasing. The book: Identifies the five different Jobs for which students hire postsecondary education Allows you to see your true options for what’s next Offers guidance for how to successfully choose your pathway Illuminates how colleges and entrepreneurs can build better experiences for each Job The authors help readers understand not what job students want out of college, but what "Job" students are hiring college to do for them.
Author : Michael Pryor
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1760638897
Let's get this straight - ghosts are everywhere. And they're dangerous. This is why my family has hunted them for hundreds of years. The Marin family run a two-man operation in inner-city Melbourne. Anton has the ghost-sight, but his father does not. Theirs is a gentle approach to ghost hunting. Rani Cross, combat-skilled ghost hunter from the Company of the Righteous, is all about the slashing. Anton and Rani don't see eye to eye - but with a massive spike in violent ghost manifestations, they must find a way to work together. And what with all the blindingly terrifying brushes with death, Anton must use his gap year to decide if he really wants in on the whole ghost-hunting biz . . . Gap Year in Ghost Town is smart, funny and scary - with extra action and attitude. 'FILLED WITH GHOSTLY INTRIGUE AND DELIGHTFUL CHARACTERS, MICHAEL PRYOR'S LATEST NOVEL IS PURE ENTERTAINMENT.' Books + Publishing
Author : Susan Griffith
Publisher : Vacation Work Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Careers
ISBN : 9781854583284
A unique bestseller, this fully revised fourth edition of the definitive handbook for all those wanting a year off before or after university is inspiring - a Gap Year is the chance of a lifetime to see the world; this book has already shown thousands of readers just how much they can achieve in their year off. It is comprehensive and includes all the information you need on specialist Gap Year programmes, jobs for travellers worldwide, voluntary work around the world, joining an expedition, learning a language, gaining a new skill or qualification or simply taking the opportunity to travel. Vividly illustrated with stories and case histories from gap year travellers to show what a Gap Year can be like. As England's foremost authority on finding temporary work abroad, Susan Griffith constantly attracts the attention of the media, featuring on Woman's Hour, You and Yours and other national radio and television programmes.
Author : Michael T. Nettles
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2006-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801882326
D.--Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools "Educational Review"
Author : Marianne C. Bohr
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2015-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631528200
Thirty-plus years after first backpacking through Europe, Marianne Bohr and her husband leave their lives behind and take off on a yearlong quest for adventure.
Author : Charles Wheelan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393633969
Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story. What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"—and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic—We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family’s gap-year experiment. Wheelan paints a picture of adventure and connectivity, juggling themes of local politics, global economics, and family dynamics while exploring answers to questions like: How do you sneak out of a Peruvian town that has been barricaded by the local army? And where can you get treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria your daughter picked up two continents ago? From Colombia to Cambodia, We Came, We Saw, We Left chronicles nine months across six continents with three teenagers. What could go wrong?
