LJ - Afghan education
In 2009 approximately 22% – around 446,682 – of female students were considered long-term absentees.
While 2,281 schools have been built in the past two years, data from the Afghan Ministry of Education shows that 47%
still have no actual building.
A new definition of "built", that. Still paid for, of course.
In the highly insecure Khost province, on the border with Pakistan, just 3 per cent of teachers are female. In neighbouring Paktika, this drops to just 1 per cent.
Girls may only be taught by female teachers, remember.
Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox "We are not a global policeman. We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened."
In summary, the actual educational progress is a lot less than the headline figures, is dropping rapidly, and "we" will do nothing about that.
I give it 2 years till girls' school attendance is, outside Kabul, back where it started.
More here. It's bleak.
High Stakes: Girls' education in Afghanistan | Oxfam GB | Policy & Practice
Afghan girls' education backsliding as donors shift focus to withdrawal | Global development | The Guardian
NATO Withdrawal Affects Development Programs in Afghanistan - BORGEN
p.s. re your p.s. Interesting, I read up about 1842 after first seeing the Assistant Bursar's print. As to defeats; Afghanistan will not be a defeat until it's sponsoring/turning a blind eye to terrorism in the West again. Iraq is, however, already a defeat.
The Coalition mission was "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction
(none there), to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism
(he never did; Daish bloody well are though), and to free the Iraqi people.
(Ask the Yazidi about thatl)"