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gap year skiing & snowboard courses
The value of taking a gap year either before or after your university course is widely acknowledged, as it provides an opportunity for you to gain important life and social skills that will help shape your future.
Our ski and snowboard instructor courses are no exception as they provide unique and potentially life-changing experiences. Imagine spending up to 3 months or a season at a world class ski resort, receiving quality ski or snowboard training to develop your skills, and enjoying time with some new friends both on the mountains and socially in the resort.
Taking a gap year skiing or snowboarding to become an instructor will be an experience you will always reflect on and never forget. Why not take a gap ski course in Canada and gain internationally recognised CSIA or CASI instructor qualifications, not forgetting a freestyle or CSCF entry level race qualification too.
A well structured gap year with a qualification is a real extra when applying to university and recognised favourably by university admissions tutors. Also, employers are now seeking recruits with initiative, determination, leadership qualities and communication skills. Our courses will enable you to develop these core personal skills and characteristics and help your CV stand out.
ski or snowboard instructor course benefits
There are many reasons why people may take a gap year skiing or snowboarding. Through our International Academy ski or snowboard instructor training courses, you can:
- travel to world class ski resorts
- improve your own skiing or snowboarding ability over a ski season
- live independently as part of a group and develop key social skills
- make some new lifelong friends
- have fun!
- use the qualifications you have gained to work as an instructor after your ski or snowboard course (or sometime in the future)
- help your CV stand out from the crowd
Click the link for Robert Ashpole's gap year experience
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qualify and work in the other hemisphere
Some people have attained their Level 2 qualification in Canada and then worked in the Southern Hemisphere over the Summer. Others have qualified in New Zealand and then worked the winter season in Europe or North America.
year out group
The International Academy is a member of the Year Out Group, an association of independent organisations that promotes the concepts and benefits of well-structured gap year programmes. The Year Out Group supports our International Academy gap year skiing and snowboarding courses in Canada and New Zealand.
To find out more about the Year Out group, please visit their website www.yearoutgroup.org
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