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How mass public transportation influences the retention intentions of Australian regional and remote university students1.89 MB
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Journal article
How mass public transportation influences the retention intentions of Australian regional and remote university students
Rural Society, Vol.32(1), pp.15-29
2023
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Abstract
Getting to and from campus matters, especially for students who have relocated from regional and remote (RR) areas who must wrangle, often for the first time, rigid mass public transportation (MPT). Little is known about MPTs’ influence on RR students’ retention intentions or how MPT interacts with other known geographic proximity barriers. Interviews with ten equity practitioners from three Australian universities revealed four interconnected themes. First, MPT access and accessibility can limit university participation. Second, MPT provides a time benefit, enabling study while commuting. Third, relocation anxieties interact with MPT as accommodation further from campus requires greater MPT usage. Fourth, parents are concerned about MPT access and accessibility which adds to other “mixed messages” that they give their children, affecting participation. Efforts that address MPT access and accessibility may improve RR higher education retention and educational outcomes.
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- Title
- How mass public transportation influences the retention intentions of Australian regional and remote university students
- Authors
- Joshua Dale (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesMaria Raciti (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesAaron Tham (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- Rural Society, Vol.32(1), pp.15-29
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1080/10371656.2023.2208915
- ISSN
- 2204-0539; 10371656
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Marketing and Communications; Student Services and Engagement; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99718898902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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