How can we say with certainty that any other interpersonal goals would not have trumped academic ones in a head-to-head comparison?

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Bigger ones have commercial arms, media departments, aggressive head-hunting methods and a wide array of private fund-raising and investment strategies.

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In their version, parental ballots could be held and local-government officials would have to sack head teachers or hand schools over to be run by more successful ones, if that was what parents said they wanted.

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The good news is that Dev units have been shipping to the roughly 600 who signed up, with the remaining ones set to head out within a week.

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This is not the first time President Assad has offered an amnesty to his opponents, and it is unlikely to have any more impact than the ones he proposed last year, the BBC's Jonathan Head in neighbouring Turkey says.

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