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The Rural Development Challenge to the Universities: Safety in Theory or Danger in Practice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

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The universities often may seem remote from rural communities, but they continue to draw a proportion of their students from the villages and small towns and, increasingly, a concern for the welfare of the rural inhabitants informs and directs the teaching, applied research, and theoretical debates of many members of staff.

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