Higher Education, Place, and Career Development: Learning from Rural and Island Students

Highlighting the importance of a career perspective, Rosie Alexander encourages readers to consider how career pathways develop across time and across transition points, unsettling the notion of a straightforward transition through university into the workplace. The book uncovers how student trajectories are developed through interweaving dynamics of relationships, place, and career routes and unpacks the implications for policymakers and practitioners. It contends that a much greater spatial awareness is necessary to understand and support the educational and career pathways of higher education students.

This is a crucial read for higher education researchers, policymakers, and students interested in rurality as well as access to and transition from higher education.