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Download full textHemmings, Brian; Hill, Doug; Ray, David – 1997
To collect data about the first-year university experiences of rural students, 15 students were drawn from a pool of 125 Riverina (Australia) students who had participated in an earlier study on factors that influence academic persistence. The sample consisted of approximately equal numbers of males and females, about equal proportions of students…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hemmings, Brian; Kay, Russell; Hill, Doug – 1997
A two-phase study assessed the extent to which a set of variables predicted rural secondary students' likelihood of continuing to college and sought to determine predictors of rural students' academic success at the completion of first-year university study. Participants were drawn from seven state coeducational secondary schools in the Riverina…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Bound Students
Peer reviewedAzer, Samy A.; Simmons, David; Elliott, Susan L. – Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2001
A study examined the relationship between medical students' background and their attitudes toward being trained or working as doctors in rural areas. Surveys of 97 first-year medical students at an Australian university indicated that students from rural backgrounds were more willing than urban students to be trained and to work in rural areas.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects
