This paper surveys the literature on educational programmes in selected rural areas of the world. It reports present trends in organization, content and methodology. The focus is on the structure of formal education, its innovation and impact on the development of the rural areas. (SM)

Some major dimensions of an evolutionary trend in which the rural development process has become separated from the modern agricultural development process are analyzed and the implications related to emerging opportunities of land-grant universities, government agencies, and business enterprises for broadened public service to rural…