The shortage of headteachers and lack of support for governing bodies are pushing schools towards using expensive headhunters, say education and industry experts.
But, he says, it is inevitable that recruitment agencies will play a larger role, as the lack of support for governing bodies means they feel it makes sense for them to pay for services.
The unrest in Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub, began after a May 3 raid by security forces on the university campus that left four students dead, and it poses a new risk for Mr. Assad's government because the city has remained a core of support for his governing minority Alawite sect throughout the uprising.
The other two major ethnic groups, Chinese and Indian, have withdrawn support for the governing party in recent years and now largely back the opposition.
Declining support for the governing party has heightened the personal rivalry between Mr. Najib and Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader facing sodomy charges.
But as the public works appropriations in the last supplemental budget were exhausted, and support for the governing Liberal Democratic Party plummeted, politicians decided that additional spending was necessary to protect the country's off-again-on-again economic recovery.
The other two major ethnic groups in the country, Chinese and Indian, have increasingly withdrawn their support for the governing party in recent years and now largely back the opposition.
The Indian government's aggressive timetable for rolling out the cash transfer program has led some of its political opponents to claim that the entire exercise is mostly about securing political support for the governing coalition led by the Indian National Congress Party.
In Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, a Socialist member of Parliament, Panayiotis Kouroublis, said that his vote would be positive but that it did not constitute unconditional support for the governing party.
While the government commended the police, political analysts predicted that the decision to fire tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators could damage support for the governing coalition before the next elections, possibly in June.
Some human rights monitors, like Amnesty International, have said they believe that Zimbabwe's refusal of further international aid is a prelude to the use of food as a bargaining tool to win support for the governing party in the elections next year.
