Graduates to get gap-year money
The government is to pay for graduates struggling to get a job to go on trips abroad, The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has confirmed.
It said the scheme will be launched with expedition company Raleigh International next week.
It will pay for 500 young people under the age of 24 to travel to places such as Costa Rica and India to take part in projects such as building schools.
It comes as graduates face an increasingly tough job market.
Forty-eight graduates are chasing every job on offer this year, according to a study by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
The 10-week expeditions - to Borneo, India, Costa Rica and Nicaragua - will enable graduates to work on community and environmental volunteering projects in remote communities.
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Re: Graduates to get gap-year money
Re: Graduates to get gap-year money
[quote=You]I think this is a way cool idea!
If only I was young and newly graduated. :cry:[/quote]
You are in a position where you could organise something like this for yourself!
Sounds like fun for the 500 or so people chosen, but is it REALLY the best thing we/they could be doing?
Re: Graduates to get gap-year money
If the alternative is being here and applying for jobs they will not get, then why not?
What else could/would they do?
I think this is a way cool idea!
If only I was young and newly graduated. 😢