The daughter of a celebrated headteacher is following in his footsteps by taking on a voluntary teaching job.

Jess Seldon, 19, is to spend three months of her gap year teaching English to children at a high school in Hanoi, Vietnam, as part of an eight-month trip to Asia.

Her father, Anthony Seldon, was head at Brighton College and wrote or edited more than 25 books, including a biography of Tony Blair.

Her mother Joanna Seldon was an English teacher at the same school.

Jess said there had been lots of voluntary positions offered by the Eye to Eye organisation but teaching seemed the natural option.

She said: "If I'm following in anybody's footsteps, it's my mother's because she was an English teacher.

"Hopefully, it will be more hands-on teaching than what my dad did.

"I'll be at one of the biggest high schools in Hanoi. There are 2,000 students.

"Their grasp of English is fairly basic but they are incredibly keen to learn. It might be different to teaching here, where some kids just don't want to know.

"It's a voluntary scheme but we have to pay for accommodation. I'm expecting it to be quite basic but I did some voluntary work in Sri Lanka during the summer so I'm getting used to it."

She said getting a place at Phuong Nam High School, had meant studying for three months but she had been keen to visit Vietnam since learning about the country's war with America at GCSE.

She said: "I had to pass a Teaching English as a Foreign Language course, which was quite hard."

She added: "I don't know if I'm going to go into teaching as a career but I know I wanted to do this.

"It's something that I'm thinking about and growing up with my mum and dad, especially the last eight years where we lived at Brighton College, I have seen how much my parents have enjoyed teaching. It's their life and they're more than happy with it."

She is due to return to Britain in August and start studying history at University College, London, in September