Exploring Youth Interest in Post-Secondary Education in a Rural Town

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Mayan, Maria

• SSHRC PEG awarded 2023: This project explores one rural community’s attempt to address its dependence on jobs in the oil and gas industry, youth out-migration, and low post-secondary education attainment. In 2020 Drayton Valley, a rural oil and gas town of 7,000 people (Statistics Canada, 2023), implemented a tuition assistance program called Zero-Fee Tuition (ZFT). The ZFT program enables residents to learn where they live by providing $5,000 to residents enrolled in select post-secondary education programs. While the town has seen broad uptake with approximately 20 students enrolling in ZFT each year, only three youth have enrolled in ZFT within three years of completing high school.

• Date created

  2023-09-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Partnership Engage Grant
  • PEG
  • SSHRC
  • Community-Based Research
  • Post-Secondary Education
  • Rural Development
  • 2023AD-2024AD
  • Western Canada
  • North America

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-cb3p-6g20

• License

  ©️Mayan, Maria. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2027.