RIGHT TO EDUCATION
- right of everyone to education
- full development of the human personality and the sense of its dignity,
- strengthen the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
- enable all persons to participate effectively in a free society, promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial, ethnic or religious groups
- Primary education shall be compulsory and available free to all;
- Secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education;
- Higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education;
- Fundamental education shall be encouraged or intensified as far as possible for those persons who have not received or completed the whole period of their primary education;
- The development of a system of schools at all levels … material conditions of teaching staff shall be continuously improved.
For example:
- Availability/accessibility of public education
- Enrolment/drop-out rates
- Quality of education given (ex. impact of privatization)
- Teachers’ rights and welfare
