Volunteer work with orphans is a common gap year choice

Don’t students in the UK go to university right after school? Because here, we graduate in June and take the entrance exam for University in the same year.   Pham Hang, Vietnam

In Britain, students have a different attitude towards going to university, and many people don't go straight after they leave school.

Often, people like to take a 'gap year' so that they can travel, work or do something else interesting.

Join Vicki and Oliver in today's Ask About Britain and find out why young people in Britain like to do this, and what the universities think about it.

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