My kids had to work for 6 months to get enough money for their gap years, this included cleaning, bar work and anything else they could find. They then used the money to teach sports in Fiji and then travel in Australia and New Zealand. I  don’t see why our taxes should pay for other people’s children to fund their gap years. Surely it is more important that children learn that they have to survive on their own hard work or is this the beginning of the give me culture. Like my husband and I, my children are also working during their student holidays to help pay for their university education but who knows if they will get a job when they graduate, no doubt they will go back to bar work again if they don’t find anything, it is boring having nothing to do.