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- 2019| Adonis & Abbey Publi...The choice of career is a delicate matter that demands serious attention. Many people have become victims of circumstances of incorrect career choice due to the lack of proper career guidance and information. However, there is a debate among academic researchers in the field of career counselling and guidance that students in urban areas have more advantage in understanding career choice compared to their rural counterparts. Hence, this research examined and compared the extent to which communication influenced students’ career choice in rural and urban tertiary institutions. This was a quantitative research using a survey method while employing a simple random technique. The study indicated that friends, the Internet, and universities’ open day were the major channels of communication by which career services were provided to potential university students. The study also revealed that first-year students from Durban University of Technology (DUT) were well-equipped with knowledge of career choice than the first-year students of the University of Zululand (UNIZULU). Students from the two universities have similar views that parents, admission requirements and matriculation results were the major factors influencing their choice of study.
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- This study explored the interconnectedness between distance to campus and the learning abilities of students cum their academic performances. Mixed Methods Design was adopted for the study. Self-designed questionnaires were administered to 934 randomly selected students, while semi-structured interviews were conducted for 8 conveniently selected lecturers from two rural universities in Nigeria and South Africa. The collected sets of quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and themes respectively. The finding of the study shows that rural based universities lack adequate campus-based accommodation facilities; the distance between where students live and campus is far, and that affects their learning abilities as well as academic performances. The study recommends that rural based universities should partner with property and transport agencies. While the former will seek to establish adequate accommodation facilities at affordable prices for students, the latter will provide good and flexible transport system which will serve students at minimal cost regardless of the situation of the community. Meanwhile, the university authority should ensure that the number of students enrolled annually is commensurate to the available facilities.
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