Abstract:
Students in rural schools in some areas of Western Australia face the difficulty of making further education and career choices at earlier ages than their urban counterparts. In these cases full secondary education is not locally available and students and their parents are faced with the problem of making difficult vocational decisions, often on the basis of little information. This paper examines some of the influences on year ten students in a rural Western Australian school as they consider their career options and suggests ways in which they can possibly be assisted through the application of new communication technologies.