It was one of India's most successful public offerings, more than ten times over-subscribed, with bids from over 300, 000 investors.
But if, as at the Academy I visited in Lewisham, good GCSE results doubled in a year, and a school once under-subscribed, now five times over-subscribed, how is that a denial of public service values?
Napier claims that these new courses, in contrast to the old ones, are over-subscribed.
Mr Brownlow said a service that let game clans book servers on which to play was regularly over-subscribed.
Parental choice has already established preferences for certain, often over-subscribed schools, he says.
Private schools are mostly over-subscribed, poorly paid and staffed by badly trained teachers.
"The issue has already been over-subscribed, " one of the offering's managers told Agence France-Presse, saying bids had been made for 107% of the shares on offer.
Successful schools will be over-subscribed and this will mean allowing them to select their pupils on any fair and open criteria they choose including academic ability.
To see how little this corresponds to middle-class Greek reality, you need only visit one of the flourishing and over-subscribed private schools in greater Athens.
But whether Palmer has the equivalent of an over-subscribed Kickstarter on his hands or not, his project, mad as it seems, has captured the popular imagination.
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Some schools are heavily over-subscribed - and there are some areas with a wider range of different types of schools and more competition for the most popular.
Ridgewood's existing engineering GCSE is over-subscribed, something children "aspire to": they have to be recommended by their maths, technology and science teachers to be considered for a place.
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Another factor, suggests a spokeswoman for the Russell Group, is that applications from ethnic minority pupils are disproportionately focused on some of the most over-subscribed and competitive courses, such as medicine.
In the event of places being over-subscribed, the school takes a variety of factors into account including observance of Sunday Mass, whether the candidate has received his first Holy Communion and the extent to which the applicant fulfils the Church's requirements regarding baptism.
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The firm's IPO was subscribed three times over, and the shares rose by 11% on the first day of trading.
China Mobile recently announced that it has over 15 million iPhone users subscribed to its network although it has no formal contract with Apple to sell the iPhone.
China Mobile recently announced that it has over 10 million iPhone users subscribed to its network although it has no formal contract with Apple to sell the iPhone.
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China Mobile announced at the start of 2012 that it had over 15 million iPhone users subscribed to its network despite having no formal contract with Apple to sell the iPhone.
The investment offered a 4.5% return to investors over a 117 month term, and it was fully subscribed by 171 investors within 6 hours.
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