Abstract
This study aims to explore the challenges and difficulties that rural students experience when they transition to Higher Education in Vietnam to pursue their higher studies. This study was carried out at a local University in Vietnam. It is a qualitative research study, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 10 participants. The participants were all first-year students, including males and females. The interviews involved answering semi-structured questions. Multiple interviews were carried out with each participant. The study discovered that rural students experience many difficulties at university in relation to their relationships with teachers and peers, getting support, overcoming prejudice, online learning, and economic hardship.
Highlights
Education is a driving force for economic and social development
This study aims to explore the challenges and difficulties that rural students experience when they transition to Higher Education in Vietnam to pursue their higher studies
As a result of this, participants engaged in self-silencing if they had difficulties, and teachers gained little understanding of their students' ongoing difficulties and concerns
Summary
Education is a driving force for economic and social development. For many rural and economically disadvantaged students, going to university is considered the only way to get out of their difficult situation to achieve a better life (Pang, 2017). Going to university is not plain sailing for these students. They have to leave their home and family to move to a big city to pursue their study. In their study, they meet many difficulties, and many students end up leaving school when they fail to overcome these challenges (Gil, Antelm-Lanzat, CacheiroGonzalez, Perez-Navio, 2019)
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