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This category contains 15 sites:

• Anywork Anywhere - International recruitment site for students, backpackers and global travellers advertising casual, seasonal and temporary job opportunities and information on work in the UK and worldwide.
• Ayearout.com - Gap year travel options for students or persons wanting to take a year off to explore. Highlights various volunteer, learning, and touring organisations available.
• BBC News - More students opt for 'gap year' - Students are increasingly taking a "gap year" before beginning university, say admissions authorities.
• BBC News - Talking Point - Are gap years a waste of time? - Discussion on the pro's and con's of Gap Years
• Gap Year Jobs - Directory of employment opportunities particularly suitable for students taking a gap year.
• GapYear.Com - Comprehensive gap year information site.
• Guardian Unlimited - Gap years - Informational resource on most aspects of a Gap Year.
• Payaway - News, features and listings for finding paid and voluntary seasonal jobs abroad, including tourism, childcare, camp, kibbutz and winter jobs.
• Springboard Gap Year Information - Travel advice, the advantages and disadvantages of gap years, and information on potential destinations.
• The Gap Year Guidebook - How to buy this useful publication.
• The Year Out Group - This site is packed with information for your year out or gap year and is supported by UCAS and DfEE.
• Voluntary Work Information Service - Information on volunteer work opportunities in over 150 countries worldwide in the environmental and humanitarian sectors.
• Volunteer Africa - Directory and information on voluntary and gap-year projects in Africa.
• Volunteer Latin America - A small and independent organisation committed to helping protect Latin America’s flora and fauna, its biodiversity, and to offering the most cost effective way to become an environmental volunteer in Mexico, Central and South America.
• World Service Enquiry - Information and advice about working overseas and at home for peace, justice and development.