Admiral Pwnflakes
State War Academy
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Posted - 2008.04.17 11:00:00 -
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Edited by: Admiral Pwnflakes on 17/04/2008 11:05:38
 Originally by: Emily Spankratchet
Edited by: Emily Spankratchet on 17/04/2008 10:50:25
Originally by: Erotic Irony
Also excellent thread, however what is a GAP teacher?
In the UK, some people take a year out between A-levels and university. The idea of this "Gap year" is to do something useful, or gain useful experience. Some people travel the world. Others do volunteering activities in the third world. Some work to gain experience. Others teach (usually in independent or prep schools, which are less constrained about the qualifications of those they employ).
Edit: More pointless info, and some ranting.
This is becoming increasingly popular, to the extent that there are now companies that will organise your gap year for you. The girls that died in the recent crash in Ecuador were on a volunteering trip run by such a company.
As an old fart, this depresses me. Part of the point of gap years was that you had to get off your fat arse and organise it yourself. If you wanted to volunteer in Equatorial Guinea, you had to find an aid organisation that worked there and convince them that you would be useful. Now you just get mummy and daddy to send ten grand to a holiday company that will make your trip just ethical enough not to seem like the adventure holiday it really is. Once you're back you toddle of to university to do yet another pointless course in sleepware retail management.
A good 60% of gap years are now taken by mummy and daddies boys/girls whose parents cater to the beg and whim of their spoilt and immature children. IF these people had any balls or savy they'd go straight to University anyway, then do the GAP year afterwards if they so chose to do so.
But I digress, 9/10 these people goto Uni and study some inane an totally pointless subject (like Reading) and come out and end up getting a job paying 40k a year + bens and not doing alot.
And yeah, I'm a bitter person with a 1st class honors degree in Computer Science who is woefully underpaid and under appreciated.
NEVERMIND, EVE lets me vent my anger. :P (But I do plan to do my GAP year at the end of this year!) :P |