"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 09:36:08 on Thu, 9 Apr
2015, d remarked:
And what with students in those days probably being from a 4yr O-level
stream, not having gap years, and almost always on a 3yr degree course,
not very many undergrads would have been over-21 anyway.
I suspect the majority of students still don't have gap yahs. They tend to
be restricted to those whose parents have deep pockets and can fund them
buggering about in the far east smoking weed for a year.
The gap years I've heard about aren't leisure. They are a form of sandwich
course - probably no longer available.
Having recently taken an interest in "employing" sandwich students, most
unis [1] now offer them as an optional part of appropriate (usually
engineering) degrees.
If you can find an appropriate placement, you work the third year of your
degree and take your finals in the fourth. If you can't, you just take your
finals in the third year.
tim
[1] that's most of the ones that previously offered them as standard. There
are, of course, many unis that never offered them, and still don't.