Tens of thousands of A-level students waiting on results decide to take a gap year after spending months at home with parents
The lockdown generation of teenagers is increasingly putting university on hold to prioritise their social lives, admissions figures suggest.
Tens of thousands of A-level students waiting to collect their results next week have decided to take a gap year after spending months of their teenage years stuck at home with parents.
Almost 73,000 UK 18-year-olds have applied to defer the start of their degree by a year, the highest number since 2010.
Britt Dewing, 19, from Norwich, who is coming to the end of a gap year, said taking a year out was popular among some of her cohort because they felt they had missed out on socialising and discovering what they enjoy outside of school because of Covid.