Investigate scale, cause of low school retention

Boredom does not strike us as a prime reason for the high dropout rates reported in the country’s education system. Thus, a call for school heads to "make education attractive" may serve more to improve learning for those who remain in school long enough to graduate with a full basic education.

Attrition (the loss of students from a class as it moves from one year to the next) remains a topic that is little discussed publicly. While the number that sits exams and fails to move on to the next level is often reported — and decried as too high — little attention goes to the much larger loss of classmates in the eight or four years before those exams.