Gap Year

In 2012, the Senate Edgardo Angara committee annually hosted a hearing showing data on dropout rates at the University of the Philippines. According to this survey carried out by the Higher Education Committee (CHED), this ratio is "an astounding 83.7%, which means that 13 million college students are born each year and only about 500,000 graduates are born each year (2012) In the same year, the Higher Education Statistics Bureau (HESA) conducted a similar survey in the UK, bringing the dropout rate of 4% per year.

Economic researchers in Australia and the UK will investigate in 2012 and high school students who postponed the gap to go on to university promised to go on to college and as university graduates (after graduating from college) like high school students who intend to go to university I found out that I will go on to. Study there. Researchers also discovered that taking a gap year has a big positive impact on the student 's academic record. They found a student who graduated but graduated with a higher average grade than students who did not participate in the gap

Gap year is also called vacation year, usually one year break between high school and university. During the gap year, students usually travel or maintain some kind of daily work. Students with learning gap are often growing and are ready to determine the type of education they want to pursue, benefiting from higher education. Students can also learn that gap after graduating undergraduate courses before entering graduate school. These students can participate in reading, language study, trade study, art study, volunteers, travel, internships, sports advanced courses and cultural exchanges. Studies have shown that students who participated in the gap year will have better academic performance than those who do not. Many parents are worried that their students stop stopping their education.