Removing Barriers to Engagement in Higher Education by Students Living in a Rural Community

Graham Young; Kerry Rutter; Michael Christie; Maureen O'Neill; Yvonne Farragher; Angeline Medland

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Removing Barriers to Engagement in Higher Education by Students Living in a Rural Community

Graham Young, Kerry Rutter, Michael Christie, Maureen O'Neill, Yvonne Farragher and Angeline Medland

2017

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This research report details the work carried out as part of a project entitled ‘Removing Barriers to Engagement by Tertiary Students’ that was funded at the end of 2015 by the National Priorities Pool which comes under the auspices of the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP). The HEPPP program aims to ensure that Australians from low SES backgrounds, who possess the ability to study at university, have the opportunity to do so. The project team was composed of a project manager, Graham Young, who is in charge of the University of the Sunshine Coast’s northern campuses at Gympie and the Fraser Coast; an administrative officer, Angeline Medland; a research supervisor, Dr Michael Christie; and a chief investigator, Dr Kerry Rutter. HEPPP provided $59,195 and the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) made a substantial in-kind contribution, in addition to a cash contribution from the USC Gympie Campus (please see acquittal report for details). The majority of the direct government funding was used to employ research assistants, one to assist with the data collection and analysis in the first half of 2016 and another to work with an analysis of feedback from the interventions that were put in place in the second half of 2016, as well as helping out with the reporting and dissemination of the project. Dr Maureen O’Neill undertook the first role and Ms Yvonne Farragher the latter.

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Title: Removing Barriers to Engagement in Higher Education by Students Living in a Rural Community
Authors: Graham Young
Kerry Rutter
Michael Christie - Stockholm University
Maureen O'Neill
Yvonne Farragher - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
Angeline Medland
Publication details: 46 pages
Date published: 2017
Copyright note: Except where otherwise indicated, and save for any material protected by a trade mark, the Department of Education and Training, acting on behalf of the Commonwealth, has applied the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
Grant note: The project that resulted in the production of this report was funded under a National Priorities Pool (Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program) grant from the Commonwealth.
Organisation Unit: School of Education - Legacy; School of Education and Tertiary Access
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991216250402621
Output Type: Report

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