Far from the studying crowd?: regional and remote students in higher education
Participation of students from regional and remote areas of Australia in higher education has remained static over the past 25 years. Regional students have lower rates of participation overall than their city-based peers, and are underrepresented in higher status disciplines and institutions, and at postgraduate level. Although the issues for regional students overlap significantly with those for low socio-economic status (SES) background students, developing solutions is made more challenging by the extent to which Australian cities concentrate economic and social resources. This chapter arg... Show more
Authors: Burnheim, Catherine; Harvey, Andrew
Published: Singapore, Springer, 2016
Resource type: Book chapter
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