Exam 8: Location Matters: Education and Employment Inequalities in Northern and Rural Canada

A recent study discovered a significant loss of human capital in northern, rural regions. This is a consequence of what?

Northern and rural populations tend to have higher percentages of their population with lower levels of education and smaller percentages of their population with higher levels of education.

Having to leave home for post-secondary education raises the cost of pursuing higher education.

How would you describe the ways in which modern societies' spatial location serves as a foundation for social inequality?

Populations residing in Canada's North are more likely to complete high school and attend post-secondary education.

Thinking of the place you live in, which are some of the disparities that you find in the context of your city or town? How do they affect your own positionality and perspective?

What is an emotional factor that affects the decision to move away from home to go to school?

Which of the following statements about Northern residents is not true?

Which of the following is not a reason for youth to be motivated to move to larger cities?

The emotional strain in deciding to attend post-secondary education may be more apparent in ethnic groups with 'close-knit' family systems.

According to both rational choice theory and cultural reproduction, a student's educational and career aspirations, as well as their final post-secondary and workforce achievements, are influenced by __________.

Having a greater sense of how to navigate the education system, resulting in advantages, is an example of _______.

Provinces are being prompted to lower the rate of duplication and redundancy of educational programs. What are the implications for northern institutions?

The closer a student lives to post-secondary institutions, the higher the chance they will pursue higher education.

Financial costs increase when students relocate to attend post-secondary program. Which of the following is not one of these costs?

What role does location play in the educational and early employment outcomes of northern and rural youth?

Urban youth in the South have a considerably higher chance of attending university than youth in other parts of the country (43 percent probability).

In the 2016 census, when it came to more advanced degrees such as ___________, southern, urban regions were shown to possess almost double the percentage of degree holders when compared to the northern, rural regions.

Youth from higher socioeconomic backgrounds may develop a 'habitus' or tendency toward postsecondary education as something that has always been expected at some point in their lives.

Northern youth often feel that in their hometowns, everyone knows everyone else's business, and this is a motivator to leave home and relocate for post-secondary education.