Title – Graduates to get gap-year money
Source – www.bbc.co.uk
Date – 1st August 2009
Undoubtedly when this scheme is formally launched the ‘spoilers’ will be out there talking about ‘the cost to the taxpayer’ and how ‘graduates have already been funded by the tax payer during education’, but I for one will not be amongst them.
Opportunities for young people can seem few and far between sometimes and if this scheme allows 500 young people to go off and help communities who are in desperate need of it, then I am all for it. Not only will the communities benefit, but graduates who may not have the chance otherwise, will experience something which will not only change their lives but change their employability and their outlook on the world.
Purely from a political point of view at a time when the country has turned slightly inwards and far right political parties and those with isolationist manifestos have gained slightly in popularity, it is important that our younger generation are given opportunities to see the benefits of an inclusive world.
There are a number of schemes out there already which provide funding for bursaries or funding for young people including the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (
www.wcmt.org.uk).Source – www.bbc.co.uk
Date – 1st August 2009
Undoubtedly when this scheme is formally launched the ‘spoilers’ will be out there talking about ‘the cost to the taxpayer’ and how ‘graduates have already been funded by the tax payer during education’, but I for one will not be amongst them.
Opportunities for young people can seem few and far between sometimes and if this scheme allows 500 young people to go off and help communities who are in desperate need of it, then I am all for it. Not only will the communities benefit, but graduates who may not have the chance otherwise, will experience something which will not only change their lives but change their employability and their outlook on the world.
Purely from a political point of view at a time when the country has turned slightly inwards and far right political parties and those with isolationist manifestos have gained slightly in popularity, it is important that our younger generation are given opportunities to see the benefits of an inclusive world.
There are a number of schemes out there already which provide funding for bursaries or funding for young people including the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (
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