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Results of poll of UK gap-year travelers suggest that they may want to stay in school

John-Paul Ford Rojas

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The answers to the poll make these gap year students look more like a child who fill his dinner plate with candy instead of vegetables rather than someone who's well-equipped to discover the world.

It used to be a trip into the great unknown with just a rucksack and a sleeping bag, but today’s plugged-in gap year travellers say the one item they will not leave home without is their smartphone, according to a survey. Instead of spending months out of contact with the rest of civilisation as they seek to find themselves, young people are keen to stay co

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