On Tuesday, Rutgers issued a statement announcing that Wolf would remain at the school as a university attorney, but a statement Thursday said Wolf and school president Robert Barchi had agreed "it is in the best interests of the university" that Wolf resign effective immediately.

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However, challenges remain at the upper secondary level, where there are enough school places for just 47% of girls and 49% of boys of upper secondary school age to enrol, according to the Digest.

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Francesco Grillo, at the London School of Economics, suggests that, if current trends remain unchanged, Romania will overtake Italy in 2020.

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Mr. D'Aloisio, who lives with his parents and younger brother near the southwest London suburb of Wimbledon, said he will stay at home for the time being and remain on a kind of sabbatical from King's College School while continuing to take some "exams outside of school" in order to prepare for eventual university enrollment.

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School admissions remain highly competitive in some areas, with one in seven pupils failing to get a place at their first choice of secondary school this year.

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