Rural and isolated school students and their higher education choices : a re-examination of student location, socioeconomic background, and educational advantage and disadvantage / Richard James ... [and others]
Published
Canberra : National Board of Employment, Education and Training, Higher Education Council, 1999
Young people from rural areas are less likely to pursue higher education than young people from the city. This project investigated the factors affecting Year 11 and 12 students higher education choices. The main aim of this project was to analyse ways to reduce the factors that inhibit students from rural and isolated areas, including lower socio-economic groups, from taking up tertiary study. The survey examined factors such as student vocational/career objectives, the extent to which higher education is valued and promoted in the social context of the student, the impact of family and peer group attitudes to higher education, the nature and extent of access to university information, and the extent to which students consider higher education a relevant option
Analysis
Equity
Federal issue
Participation in education
Rural youth
Secondary students
State issue
Statistics
Surveys
Tertiary education
Transition from school to further education
Notes
"This report was prepared by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education and the Youth Research Centre of the University of Melbourne. " -- Acknowledgements
Volume published with earlier series title
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121)
Notes
Also available on the Internet. Internet copy has Commissioned Report No. 62 on title. Address as at 01/07/2010: http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/140EAEEA-EF88-4A12-A5BB-5973E7AA7751/3959/99_11.pdf
