And I'm glad it is because universities have waited a long time for clarity about where we should go and I hope that people will generally welcome the report when I announce it later this week.

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"I'm a graduate from one of our country's best universities, " Sara tells me in Isfahan in a quiet voice tinged with palpable frustration.

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Cultivating a network of entrepreneurs inside this system, in concert with local universities and outfits like M-PESA, the mobile payment service of Vodaphone affiliate Safaricom, is another step.

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