Denmark and the Gap Years

This paper describes three different educational offers to young people: “The Folk High School”, “The ‘After-school’” and 10 class. All can be considered optional Gap Years. The following dia-gram shows how the Danish education system is structured. The Folk High School is a training course of varying duration (approximately between 12 weeks and 1 year) where one lives at the school. It is primarily located after 12 school year. The ‘After-school’ is a special school structure, were the students also live at the school during their 8th, 9th, or 10th years of primary school. 10th Class is a voluntary school year extension of primary school. All three types of schools will be dedescribed in more detail in this paper.