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Rural and Isolated School Students and Their Higher Education Choices: A Re-Examination of Student Location, Socioeconomic Background, and Educational Advantage and Disadvantage. Commissioned Report.
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The article was published on 1999-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 78 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Higher education & Disadvantage.read more
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Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia
Johanna Wyn,Dan Woodman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a focus on generation shifts the emphasis from the assumption of linear development in which youth is a phase towards adulthood, to locate young people within the political, economic and cultural processes that both frame and shape their generation, and the meaning and experience of youth in distinctive and enduring ways.
Factors Influencing the Educational Performance of Males and Females in School and Their Initial Destinations After Leaving School
TL;DR: This article investigated the patterns of males' and females' educational participation and performance at school and their initial destinations after leaving school, the key influencing factors and the disadvantages that arise from them.
Socioeconomic background and higher education participation: an analysis of school students’ aspirations and expectations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the attitudes of senior school students towards higher education and reveal appreciable social stratification in the opinions of senior secondary students about the relevance and attainability of a university education.
Factors impacting on student aspirations and expectations in regional Australia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a better understanding of the aspirations and expectations of students in regional, remote and rural areas of Australia, identifying the underlying factors that drive those aspirations, and identifying barriers that might hinder the students' pursuit of their aspirations.
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A Model of Student College Choice
TL;DR: In this article, a model of student college choice is proposed, which is based on the model of choice of the student's choice of college choice in the context of higher education.
Differential access to higher education: the measurement of socioeconomic status, rurality and isolation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined and evaluated suitable and practicable methods other than postcode methodology of identifying students of higher education from low socioeconomic, rural and isolated groups, and reviewed past approaches to the identification of such persons.
Transition to higher education
TL;DR: This chapter in a monograph covering many different transitions, focuses on the variables contributing to a successful or problematic transition from High School to a tertiary institution and is based on responses from a sample of students at a large city university who encountered difficulties.