More than one way to fill a gap year

Not ready for university just yet? It’s time to schedule some CV-enhancing fun

You’ve found your place through Clearing and decided to defer for a year, or perhaps you have simply decided to apply next year. Either way, you are now in the enviable, and perhaps slightly scary, position of having a whole year to fill.

Tens of thousands of young people from the UK will head overseas to work this summer – to bolster experience, earn money to travel, and widen their skill sets – and you could now be one of them.