Network: Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

Dipane Hlalele has sent the report below on the annual Sustainable Rural Learning Ecologies Colloquium held on 29-31 October 2014 at the Qwaqwa campus of the University of the Free State. This is the third time the colloquium has been held at the Qwaqwa campus.

Network: Addressing Disadvantage to Build Inclusive Learning Cities

A report on the City Observatory web site - How Poverty Has Deepened - provides data on the number of poor people living in "high poverty" urban neighbourhoods between 1970 and 2010 in America.The study shows that the number of poor people in these neighbourhoods has more than doubled in this period from two million to four million, while the number of such high-poverty neighbourhoods in cities has nearly tripled from 1,100 to 3,100. The study concludes that this growing concentration of poverty is the biggest problem confronting American cities.