A business, cultural and community centre in Co Londonderry has been wound up. The Rural College at Derrynoid in Draperstown closed suddenly last week. The facility was set up in 1995, with ...

Since its founding last year, the Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) College Network—a coalition of 16 public and private institutions—has sent representatives to 1,100 small-town high schools in ...

Rural learners face additional challenges in accessing and completing college, including reliable transportation, food and housing insecurity, and access to health care and high-speed internet, along ...

Poverty appears to have a stronger effect on students’ college enrollment than geographic location, but rural students still trail their urban peers on postsecondary enrollment and persistence ...