Year Out Group Press Coverage

There has been an increase in the number of young people booking gap year projects to work and travel abroad. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Thursday 4th November 2010

Christopher Middleton asserts that students planning a gap year are getting serious with earning money, improving chances of gaining a university place or improving employability now being taken more seriously than before. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Tuesday 13th July 2010

Wrtiting in The Oserver (17th January 2010) travel writer Nicola Iseard offers top tips for finding the right project and recommends Year Out Group as a good place to start. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Tuesday 19th January 2010

In 2003, Blue Ventures set out on an ambitious mission: to demonstrate that responsible tourism can be a powerful engine for sustainable, targeted conservation. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Wednesday 4th November 2009

The squeeze on university places has sent demand for gap year schemes soaring, as tens of thousands of extra school-leavers take unexpected time out. Despite three As and a B, Will Pitt has been unable to find a degree place to study medicine so he's decided to get some medical experience in India with Medforce. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Tuesday 6th October 2009

Year Out Group is one of a number of speakers at the Gap Year Safety Conference that is being sponsored by Projects Abroad at The English Speaking Union. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Monday 8th June 2009

Research by Year Out Group has revealed an increase of fifty percent in the number of young Scots  taking a gap year. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Friday 22nd May 2009

A helpful article by Nathalie Bonney in Moneywise.co.uk  reports on the high number of students who have decided to ditch the job hunt and take a gap year instead. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Friday 22nd May 2009

A few Year Out Group members offer horse riding activities.  Two of these were featured in the Britannica Blog recently.  Africa Conservation Experience offers horse care, bush rides and tracking game on a gap year placement in South Africa. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Thursday 7th May 2009

Year Out Group, an association of 37 leading gap year providers, recently published some research that should an increase in popularity in teaching overseas as a gap year activity. [ Read more... ]

Date added: Tuesday 5th May 2009