While the Taliban blow up school buildings and kill school going children, the United States has been helping build educational institutions and helping Pakistanis reach their potential. Did you know that today 20 million Pakistani children do not have access to any education? Literacy rates are extremely low (69 percent for men and 44 percent for women). Low attendance rates, inadequate infrastructure, and poorly trained teachers perpetuate these serious gaps in education, while limited government capacity, inadequate funding, poor coordination between national and provincial level governments, and security concerns add to these woes.
Did you know that despite these all the challenges, education is a top priority for Pakistani families? In the absence of an adequate public education system for all, the private sector and religious groups have stepped in to provide alternatives. Private sector schools now account for 33% of education institutions in the country. Would you not agree, that to reach their potential, Pakistanis must have access to quality education at all levels?
Through an extensive portfolio, the U.S. government supports the Government of Pakistan in its efforts to improve and expand basic and higher education and to provide all Pakistanis with access to quality education.
In helping educate Pakistan, the United States has made possible the following:
USAID programs ensured that approximately 900,000 school-aged children were able to attend classes.
Over 3,000 education administrators and 12,000 teachers were trained in management and teaching techniques to improve educational quality and increase student learning outcomes.
Through USAID, the U.S. government provided school libraries with approximately 100,000 books, math teaching kits, school bags, computer systems, and classroom learning materials.
With its adult literacy programs in the Islamabad Capital Territory and the Districts of Karachi and Rawalpindi, USAID partners taught over 2,500 women basic math and language skills. This has contributed to a 10 percent increase in the adult literacy rate between 2001 and 2008.
To improve teacher education and performance, USAID’s education program helped develop national standards as well as a licensing and accreditation system for teachers.
To provide transparent financial aid to needy Pakistani students, USAID provided technical assistance to establish six financial aid offices and created three new scholarship programs in Pakistani universities. Approximately 1,500 students were financially supported to pursue degrees in agriculture and business administration.
Continued support for 34 existing Pakistan-US collaborations between universities and higher education institutions has benefited over 1,400 Pakistani researchers and practitioners — 45 percent of whom were women. In addition, USAID developed 89 new research and training programs under a Pakistan-US Science and Technology program.
The Fulbright Program sponsored 182 new students, including 78 women. Currently, 75 Pakistanis are being supported by the Fulbright program as Master’s and Ph.D. candidates; nearly 30 percent are women and minorities. The program has a 98 percent return rate with 106 Masters-level graduates returning to Pakistan this year to join an increasingly expanding alumni network across Pakistani universities. The Fulbright Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research with the finest minds in the top universities of the United States on scholarships.
Maj TG Taylor
DET – United States Central Command
www.centcom.mil/ur
Re: While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children
No wonder US tried to approach Taliban
what does this even mean? Do you doubt that Taleban blew up schools? or that USA has been helping education? No. But you have to pass a snide remark because this is USA
Re: While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children
what does this even mean? Do you doubt that Taleban blew up schools? or that USA has been helping education? No. But you have to pass a snide remark because this is USA
since you have no idea so lets not pass a 'snide' remark on my remark, alright? may be you should study problem on your side of border first before jumping in other waters.
condemn jahil taliban
I condemn all hypocrites whether they are parhay likhay or jahil.
Re: While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children
Wow.........what a great thread !! an american general is telling pakistanis that the US is the best thing that happened to Pakistan since bread and we have two indians who have jumped in and know sooooooo much Pakistan and its problems. Thank you guys, it was your Socratic views that Pakistanis desperately need ...................
Re: While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children
Those figures sound dodgy. What is the time frame for those statistics and what are the areas they are working in? If that is the amazing stuff you have done in Pakistan, why are your figures in Afghanistan so much lower and only concentrated in the central region?
cost of killing and destroying a nation $450 billion dollars
afghan war costing your american tax payers $300 million per day
We don’t need america and the sooner the pak army turns it guns on the real enemy of the state the US military the better for us all then you can get lost back to miami beach or alabama or where ever the hell you came from.
Re: While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children
america is done
dont even have money to pay bills.
ya log school build nahin kar rahe hein, ye apna influence promote kar rahay hein.
On one hand they brag about building school and at the same time using drones against innocent people. wht the f?
