The local authorities which oversee most London state schools dislike any form of selection in school admissions.
But the opposition parties said that attempts to blame school selection policies and the "foundation" status of three schools had been a smokescreen.
In order to participate, the student must undergo a selection process at his or her school.
Barkley was projected as a first-round selection last year, but opted to return to school.
London Oratory was a grammar school until the 1970s and only ended selection interviews in 2006.
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His selection means he will become a border at the school and have all his tuition fees and other costs covered by the scholarship.
"The basis of the legal argument that we will contend is that we don't consider European procurement law to be applicable in the selection of sponsors because they raise money for a school rather than profit from it, " Schools Minister Jim Knight says.
By the 1997 election, though, enthusiasm for selection had hardened into a Conservative pledge to provide a "grammar school in every town".
Labour tends to make much of the few educational causes that unite it, such as opposition to profit-making organisations running schools and academic selection of pupils, neither of which are part of the academy or free-school model.
DUP's education spokesman and a former grammar-school teacher, admits that this has muddied the case for hanging on to selection, as many unionists prefer.
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"The current system of academic selection at age 11 has contributed to what is in fact a mediocre performance of the school system in Northern Ireland by international standards, " the statement added.
The card was targeted at young mothers and IDEO's observation team set about following a selection of moms around as they went about their daily business: taking their children to school, shopping, even balancing their checkbooks.
For the time being, most business schools only offer an interview after a candidate has submitted their written application, so being selection to interview is the first major hurdle on the road to a place at the school of their dreams.
DraftExpress, run by its President, Jonathan Givony, penciled Oladipo in as a late first round selection, while the popular NBADraft.net was not as optimistic, suggesting that Oladipo would leave school early only to be selected near the top of the second round.
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