the entire educational system—an average 17 percent increase in earnings per year of schooling as compared with 10 percent for primary school. . (13) The United States provides critical foreign assistance to Pakistan’s education sector to improve access to and the quality of basic and higher education. Since 2010, the United States Agency for International Development (referred to in this Act as USAID ) has awarded more than 6,000 scholarships for young women to receive higher education in Pakistan. (14) The Merit and Needs-Based Scholarship Program administered by USAID awards scholarships to academically talented, financially needy Pakistani students from all regions, including female students from rural areas of the country, to pursue bachelor’s or master’s degrees at participating Pakistani universities. 3. Sense of Congress (a) In general It is the sense of Congress that— (1) every individual should have the opportunity to pursue a full cycle of primary, secondary, and higher education