Students from regional and remote areas remain significantly under-represented in higher
education despite decades of equity policy designed to encourage participation. One …

For some youth, thinking about the future–let alone expressing aspirations for the future–is a
daunting task. This incapacity to aspire is problematic in itself, but particularly as neoliberal …

For forcibly displaced people, high educational attainment is economically and socially
empowering. Using experiences of African refugee youth in Australia as an empirical case …

Las transiciones a la educación secundaria posobligatoria son un momento clave en la
trayectoria educativa de los jóvenes. Las decisiones que los llevan a seguir unos u otros …

During early adolescence, the influence of friends becomes more pronounced. This study
models the effect of friends' academic ambitions on adolescents' ambitions while controlling …

Resumen (analítico) Considerando que las transiciones educativas son clave para dar
cuenta de las desigualdades existentes en los caminos de la educación y el trabajo …

Indigenous students remain vastly under-represented within higher education in Australia.
While aspirations have been a key focus of the widening participation agenda, the …

This chapter examines discourses that address the obstacles confronting regional youth
transitioning to the future world of work (WoW). Mainstream discourses associated with …

Despite decades of policies to widen participation in medical degrees, students selected for
Medicine continue to reflect a socially elite group, rather than the diversity of the …

In Spain, most of the sociological research on educational expectations, aspirations and
choices is informed by rational choice theories (RAT)(Bernardi and Requena 2010; Elias …