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Schools in rural areas face very different issues to their counterparts in urban areas. In this programme, Farming Today embarks on a week of reports looking at the problems, the advantages, and the likely future for schools in rural areas.

For demographic reasons, many rural schools are small. Charlotte Smith hears about the approach taken to keeping small schools open in Scotland, where a government-commissioned report proposes that an independent body, rather than the local council, should make the final decision on any school closure, and that any school surviving a closure threat should be safe from similar threats for five years.

Meanwhile in England, North Yorkshire has more small primary schools than anywhere else in the country. 大象传媒 Radio York reporter Sarah Urwin finds out how schools there are sharing staff and resources in order to survive.

Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Campbell.