• Mr Schafer hopes that he will one day be able to sit in a rural school and watch a hologram of the New York Philharmonic play the music he loves.

    ECONOMIST: Can the rules be bent just enough to keep them alive?

  • They in turn shipped the boys to what they thought was a prep school in rural Kentucky but turned out to be a Baptist reform school.

    FORBES: Shoot To Kill

  • Caroline Palmer, one of the governors at Dunswell Primary School, near Beverley, said the council had not taken into account the role of a school in a rural area.

    BBC: Three East Yorkshire village schools set to close

  • The system as a whole responds better to parents' wishes, too: if local authorities try to close a much-loved small rural school, parents simply apply to open their own one.

    ECONOMIST: Transforming Britain's schools

  • For a highly trained professional coming out of medical school with a big debt to pay, rural postings are not the most attractive.

    ECONOMIST: Health care

  • Enjolo Primary School is located in a poor rural village about 30 minutes outside of Lilongwe.

    NPR: The Missed Education of African Girls

  • The school is located in a leafy rural hamlet two hours east of Pittsburgh and has an undergraduate enrollment of around 1, 500.

    FORBES: Tuition Discount Alert: 50 Great Colleges Desperately Seeking Students

  • Kimani Maruge is an 85-year-old Kenyan, a veteran of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonialism in the 1950s, and, as of last year, a full-time pupil at school in rural south-west Kenya.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | The Magazine Monitor

  • During the programme, Charles - who set up the Prince's Countryside Fund in 2010 to raise cash to support countryside communities - is shown visiting some of his rural initiatives as well as a south London school which has seen improved exam results after helping pupils to grow their own vegetables.

    BBC: Prince Charles urges 'harmony with nature'

  • Sean Quinn Sr is a farmer's son who left school at 14 and built a global business empire from humble beginnings in rural County Fermanagh.

    BBC: Quinn protesters block Derrylin factory entrance

  • Another programme offers undergraduates early guarantees of a place in medical school if they are willing to practise in rural areas.

    ECONOMIST: Health care

  • For example, in Pakistan a 10 to 12 year old boy from a wealthy urban family is three times more likely to attend school than a girl from a poor family living in a rural area.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • As a result, school enrolment, retention and achievement rates are particularly low in rural areas and, more specifically, among indigenous people.

    UNESCO: Bilingual Literacy for Life

  • It recruited twenty-four teacher coaches for the twenty-seven schools in the semi-rural district. (Charlottesville is the county seat, but it runs a separate school district.) Many teacher-coaching programs concentrate on newer teachers, and this one is no exception.

    NEWYORKER: Personal Best

  • Born on October 25, 1944 into a rural family where both parents were schoolteachers, Mr. Ren spent his primary and middle school years in a remote mountainous town in Guizhou Province, and studied at Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, where he graduated in 1963.

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  • Therafter, Reddy had devoted himself to a variety of philanthropic causes, including providing drinking water to rural areas and mid-day meals to school-going children.

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  • Interesting points were raised by the schools, giving those present a clear picture of the challenges that these institutions face: in the light of the recent violence, the University of Nairobi expressed a need for courses in conflict reporting safety, whilst a Mozambican j-school noted the lack of desire on the part of journalists to report from rural areas.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • The centre has also made political hay from the rapid rolling-out of a new, if far from perfect, rural health-insurance scheme since 2003, and the abolition of rural school fees in 2006 and 2007.

    ECONOMIST: China's other face

  • He came from a poor rural background, but he had managed, in the nineteen-sixties, to get a good education at a school for future teachers.

    NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

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