Higher Education: Young People
(asked on 23rd October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of gap years in improving educational outcomes for students.
This question was answered on 26th October 2018
The department has not made any recent assessment of the effectiveness of gap years in improving educational outcomes for students.
In 2012, we published a study that examined the characteristics of gap-year takers, their motivations, what they did and what effect it had on their longer-term outcomes: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gap-year-takers-uptake-trends-and-long-term-outcomes.