With the current turmoil in the OCR Examining Board (Oxford Cambridge and RSA), many school leavers are now facing an un-expected gap year. In an extremely difficult month for OCR A-Level students, who do not know if their results are credible, it seems a gap year may be their silver lining.
In the absence of well-laid plans for a meaningful year off, these school leavers could benefit greatly from organisations like i-to-i who specialise in expedient travel projects. i-to-i have seven years'' experience in providing worthwhile gap year travel placements for students, with a host of well-researched, hassle-free opportunities in areas that need our support. i-to-i''s work placements are designed to make a real difference, both to the volunteers themselves and the places they travel to. In a time when many 18 year-olds have been left unsure as to their immediate futures, volunteer travel could be a valuable means of making the most of a potentially wasted year.
i-to-i offer an unrivalled breadth of opportunity in volunteer work around the world, recruiting volunteers internationally to support working placements (known as i-Ventures) in: community development, conservation, care work, journalism, new media, business, marketing and Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
i-Ventures are available in Australia, Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Honduras, India, Ireland, Mongolia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Thailand. We also offer 12 month earning-Ventures in South Korea and two week mini-Ventures in most of the countries listed above.
All of i-to-i''s placements are highly expedient - carefully chosen to be as beneficial to our volunteers as they are to their host communities. Every i-to-i-er is fully trained before departure, oriented on arrival, and supported thereafter by an expert in-country staff.
Students forced into taking gap years
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