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Apply	for further or higher education
Become	a school governor
Buy	books
Educate	children at home
Fight	for equal opportunities
Find a	new school
Get	a job
	a qualification
	careers advice
	funding
	help with bullying
	help with homework
Improve	your IT skills
Know	your rights in education
Learn	new skills
Learn	to drive
Learn about	the national curriculum
Pass	your exams
Plan	a gap year
Prepare	for university or college
Sort out	educational/school problems
Train	for a new job
Use	an encyclopaedia

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Education & Training > Plan a gap year (the links below will take you online)
Book a holiday
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	Ebookers A simple way to book a cheap holiday or arrange travel to almost anywhere in the world. You can organise all sorts of different holidays here as well as organising insurance, accommodation, car rental or get a bargain with one of the special deals.
	Internet Travel Services The UK's number one travel portal is an excellent place to find travel information and holidays. It has links to a huge range of travel agents as well as a large number of specialist operators.
	LastMinute Possibly one of the most famous dotcoms of the last few years, lastminute offers some great late booking deals and loads of ideas for places to go and things to see. Worth a visit.
	Opodo This is a travel service created by a number of top European airlines to provide a good way of booking good value holidays. It is simple to find a range of fares for flights to a large number of destinations and there is also a hotel booking service.
	STA Travel STA is one of the best places available for young people and students to organise good value independent travel. A huge range of tickets to destinations all over the world and excellent value insurance makes STA well worth a visit.
	Teletext Holidays Teletext has always been one of the best places to find really cheap last minute deals and their website makes finding the best deals even easier. Thoroughly recommended if you fancy a cheap package holiday.
	Travel World Travel world is one of the largest and most comprehensive listings of holidays from British and European companies.
	Travelgate One of the most comprehensive UK based holiday websites. This excellent resource has links to literally hundreds of good sites from where you can book all sorts of holidays and get information on a huge range of holiday topics. Definitely worth a look.
Book flights
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	Aer Fares This is a useful site that lets you make direct comparisons between all the major budget airlines in Europe. Although the results can sometimes take a while to load you can still save the hassle of searching each airline independently. Always worth a try.
	Airwise This site contains a comprehensive listing of all major world airlines with links to their websites. It will allow you to contact airlines all over the world and arrange flights wherever you want to go.
	Buzz A slightly less well known lo cost airline that offers cheapo flights to Germany, France and Spain and some domestic routes within France. Their fares are very competitive if you book online and include all taxes. They are definitely worth considering.
	Cheapflights This well known site is an excellent place to find extremely cheap flights to a wide range of destinations from loads of different airlines. Can be a little slow but its worth persevering as the prices can be amongst the very cheapest.
	Easyjet The ever expanding Easyjet have some excellent cheap flights to destinations all over Europe. Well worth a look to check out the latest bargains.
	Go This well known budget airline offers excellent prices around Britain and Europe. Unfortunately they only fly from stanstead airport. They can be fantastically cheap though and are usually well worth considering.
	Ryanair Another of the low cost, no frills airlines that are currently experiencing a bit of a boom. Ryanair let you fly to a large number of destinations around Europe for very little money. Booking online is simple and quick.
	Scottish Flight Guide This is a very useful site for anyone wishing to fly from airports in Scotland, which can sometimes be more difficult to organise on other travel sites. Here you can compare fares from a number of airlines at once to destinations all over the world.
Contact a gap year organisation
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	Gap Year Links A useful site that contains a list of links and email addresses of a number of organisations that could be of some use of you wish to take a gap year. They include travel specialists and organisations in the UK and the rest of the world.
	Payaway This is a great website with loads of information and links concerning working abroad and the organisations that can help you to organise a working holiday in a variety of countries. This is a fantastic resource for the independent traveller.
	Support 4 Learning - Gap Year This site provides information about organisations that offer gap year programs, as well as advice and guidelines for choosing the right organisation. Also has information about working abroad and loads of links to useful organisations and websites.
	Year Out Group This useful site offers information about and links to some of the best and most well known gap year organisations. They all offer good structured year out programs and all confirm to the Year Out Groups code of conduct.
Find budget accomodation
	Global Freeloaders An excellent idea that could find you free accommodation all over the world. Relying entirely on the goodwill of travellers the world over, this site could put you in touch with friendly locals who are willing to put you up for the night for free.
	Hostel Planet Use this site to book a bed or room in any of over 1000 hostels in countries all over the world. Also contains lots of other hostelling and travelling information.
	Hostel World A good American site where you can book beds in hundreds of hostels all over the world. The site is run by experienced backpackers and the site also contains lots of other useful and relevant information.
	Hostelling International This is the English website of the International Youth Hostel Federation. Here you can find out about hostelling in countries all over the world, including details of individual hostels, online booking and links to other relevant sites.
	Hostels.com A huge hostelling site that is independent of all the major organisations and aims to provide unbiased honest information and opinion on hostelling all over the world. A great place to find loads of information and well written advice.
	YHA Joining the YHA will give you access to cheap accommodation in countries all over the world. This is the site for England and Wales and you can use it for booking a bed online in any of the hostels in those two countries.
Find out about independent travel
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	Travelmag This online independent travel magazine contains features and articles written by and for independent travellers around the world. An excellent place to read someone's first hand experiences.
Get advice and travel information
	International Travel and Health This guide to international travel and health is produced by the World Health Organisation and contains comprehensive and up to date information about all the health issues you should consider when travelling outside the UK.
	The Foreign Office In order to get the most up to date information about travelling overseas, this is the place to visit. Provides country specific advice as well as factsheets and general travelling tips.
	Trip Prep Trip Prep provides fairly comprehensive country specific health information for travellers as well as advice about politics and safety.
	Tyzo Tyzo claims to be one of the world's largest travel directories. It contains a huge amount of information for travellers and offers help and advice on planning, travel suppliers, travel tools and for different types of traveller. A good resource
	Virtual Tourist This is a powerful user driven travel information site that has over 200,000 members in 223 different countries around the world. Real people sharing information about real experiences makes this one of the best travel information sites available.
Read a travel guide
	Amazon Amazon has now become more than just a cheap online book dealer, it now sells a huge range pf products and is generally reliable and quick to deliver. One of the best shops for sheer choice but not always the best for price. Always worth a look.
	Lonely planet Lonely planet publish some of the best travel guides to destinations all over the world. This site contains huge amounts of useful information about most of the places you may wish to visit.
	Rough Guides These are some of the best travel guides available, particularly for those travelling on a budget. On their site you can access information about loads of countries around the world along with links to relevant sites as well as buying one of the books.
	Travel Notes This is a useful page that rates the usefulness of all of the travel guides available and gives advice about the best way to use such guides. An excellent site that will help you to choose the guide that’s right for you.

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