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Wu, Xueping; Ying, Fanggan – Convergence, 2009
The number of farmers in China has been more than 900 million since the mid 1990s. According to the China Villages Statistical Yearbook 2006, by the end of 2005 the number of farmers in China had reached 949.075 million, or 72.6 per cent of China's total population. The "three-dimensional rural issues" concerning agriculture, the…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Cultural Activities, Quality of Life, Rural Areas
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Serrano, Isabel Garcia-Longoria – Convergence, 2006
This article features the Spanish Popular Universities, which are defined as "a project of cultural development that acts in the municipality, whose objective is to promote social participation, education, training, and culture in order to improve life quality" (Federation of Popular Education Universities, 2000). A century of history of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Popular Education, Lifelong Learning
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de Koning, Mireille; Striedinger, Angelika – Convergence, 2009
In early 2009, Education International conducted a study amongst its member organisations on education in correctional settings in their respective countries. Findings reveal that education in correctional settings and the conditions of teachers working in them vary greatly between regions. Generally speaking, in most regions, but specifically in…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Collective Bargaining, Foreign Countries, Correctional Rehabilitation