Officials admit mistakes were made, but insist they scrapped Nepali in the schools because young students could not absorb three languages: English, Dzongkha and Nepali.

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The idea is that the students will then absorb all the wit and wisdom on offer and ask more questions, before disseminating it all to the rest of the new class through the raft of social media and interactive channels now available to them.

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Despite the fact that Iranian women now make up around 60% of university students, Iranian men have yet to absorb fully the message of equality.

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The community college system is already overstretched and could not absorb even a significant fraction of the nearly 2 million students these institutions enroll.

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