The YearsAbroad.com Handbook
What are your options?
The opportunities that a year abroad offers are hard to beat. Even if you've travelled abroad before, your year abroad is the chance to see a country (or countries) in a whole new light. What it offers you will, of course, depend on what you choose to do.
Study teach, work or volunteer
With such a fantastic opportunity on offer, choosing how you want to spend the year can be tough. Your home university has probably already explained the most common options to you: studying abroad at a foreign university or language school; teaching English with the British Council, and working or volunteering overseas.
When trying to decide what to do, or where to go, think seriously about what you want to get out of the year - is learning a language, getting professional experience or working for charity what you're most after?
Remember that your university will have requirements of what you get out of the year academically - spending the whole year tending bar at distant Full Moon parties probably won't go down very well with your Y.A. office.
With such a fantastic opportunity on offer, choosing how you want to spend the year can be tough. Your home university has probably already explained the most common options to you: studying abroad at a foreign university or language school; teaching English with the British Council, and working or volunteering overseas.
When trying to decide what to do, or where to go, think seriously about what you want to get out of the year - is learning a language, getting professional experience or working for charity what you're most after?
Remember that your university will have requirements of what you get out of the year academically - spending the whole year tending bar at distant Full Moon parties probably won't go down very well with your Y.A. office.
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This Handbook includes separate chapters for the most popular choices for a year abroad:
- Studying abroad at a university or language school
- Teaching English with The British Council
- Working and interning
- Volunteering programmes
You could, of course, choose to do something totally different. If you're spending the year doing something not mentioned on YearsAbroad.com, please get in touch! It's important to remember that what you choose to do, or where you choose to go, doesn't necessarily mean you'll be 'missing out' on other things: you'll simply be having different experiences of living abroad. Start by asking yourself, "What are my priorities?"
- Studying abroad at a university or language school
- Teaching English with The British Council
- Working and interning
- Volunteering programmes
You could, of course, choose to do something totally different. If you're spending the year doing something not mentioned on YearsAbroad.com, please get in touch! It's important to remember that what you choose to do, or where you choose to go, doesn't necessarily mean you'll be 'missing out' on other things: you'll simply be having different experiences of living abroad. Start by asking yourself, "What are my priorities?"
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