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Rural youth in Tajikistan similarly show an acute awareness of the risk of increased outmigration resulting from poor quality education, surpassing their urban counterparts by more than 10 percentage points. On nearly all other issues, urban youth in Tajikistan indicate stronger concerns, especially regarding the negative impact of poor education quality on health outcomes, on youth demands for secondary school and on youth feelings of responsibility for the future of Tajikistan. By contrast, urban youth in Georgia are more likely to say that increased outmigration is a risk of poor education quality, and there is no difference between males and females on the issue. Young people’s concern over decreased interest in secondary education in Georgia is interesting given the upward trend in secondary enrolment and the downward trend in tertiary enrolment in this case. “Slowly high schools will not be accessible for everybody,” a 23-year-old male in Tbilisi believes. “There was high demand on high schools, but now it has decreased, and I think this is undesirable.” This young person’s views might also be reflecting the high level of absenteeism among youth in Georgia, including at the secondary level, which does very much indicate dissatisfaction and a lack of interest despite the overall enrolment rate. Further research and data on secondary completion are needed. Relatively few youth in Kosovo and Tajikistan say they feel that poor education quality contributes to increased youth grievances and disappointment with government or that it increases the likelihood of a return to armed conflict. About a fifth or less of youth in these countries say that poor education quality supports more disaffection with government compared with nearly half of youth surveyed in Georgia. Youth in Kosovo and Tajikistan send strong messages that, in their view, a return to war does not hinge substantially or at all on the quality of education. In their minds, the causes and risks of conflict have very
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