Educational arrangement is far from perfect (7)
I believe the answer is:
unideal
'is far from perfect' is the definition.
(not ideal or perfect)
'educational arrangement' is the wordplay.
'educational' becomes 'uni' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'arrangement' becomes 'deal' (arrangement between two people or groups).
'uni'+'deal'='UNIDEAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for unideal that I've seen is " Not perfect".)
I've seen this clue in The Times.
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