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Direct linkFurney, Ann-Marie; McDiarmid, Carole – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2014
This paper describes the development and implementation of the "xsel" program in Western NSW. The program supports identified high school students from regional, rural and remote communities to access the study of English, maths and science at an academically selective level. A program review was undertaken during 2012 using a structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Guenther, John; Bat, Melodie; Osborne, Sam – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2014
The discourse of remote education is often characterised by a rhetoric of disadvantage. This is reflected in statistics that on the surface seem unambiguous in their demonstration of poor outcomes for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. A range of data support this view, including National Assessment Program-Literacy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Outcomes of Education, Disadvantaged
Robinson, Susan R. – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2012
Using recent discussions of Isaiah Berlin's two concepts of freedom as a starting point, this paper poses and attempts to answer the question, to what extent are those living in rural and remote communities "free" to pursue their dreams of higher education? What would count as adequate educational opportunity for those embracing regional and rural…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Higher Education, Freedom, Educational Opportunities
