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Abstract

Widening higher education participation can deliver benefits to individuals, societies and economies but rural populations experience factors which inhibit their aspiration for and participation in higher education. When designing outreach programs, universities need to consider this landscape of factors, many of which are socio-cultural. This article reports evaluation results from a project that trialled three university outreach programs designed to align with rural contexts with the aim of identifying aspects which were effective in addressing factors of rurality, revealing obscured future options and showing higher education pathways as attainable. Universities can work effectively with rural communities to inform people’s higher education aspirations through ‘disruptions’, interventions that inform educational aspiration, and ‘bridges’ which support higher education participation through facilitating access to information, physical, financial, academic and social resources. A model including both ‘disruptions’ and ‘bridges’, jointly resourced and drawing on social capital resources of communities and higher education institutions is presented.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Kilpatrick, S and Katersky Barnes, R and Heath, J and Lovat, A and Kong, W-C and Flittner, N and Avitaia, S
Keywords:	higher education, education outreach, rural students, rural communities, aspiration
Journal or Publication Title:	Higher Education Research and Development
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0729-4360
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2018.1556619
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2018 HERDSA
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Kilpatrick, S UTAS Profile: Kilpatrick, S Google Scholar: Katersky Barnes, R UTAS Profile: Katersky Barnes, R
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