CRC/C/ARM/CO/3-4 F. Education, leisure and cultural activities (arts. 28, 29 and 31 of the Convention) Education, including vocational training and guidance 45. The Committee welcomes that children belonging to minority groups have access to education and textbooks in their mother tongue. However the Committee remains concerned that: (a) The poor infrastructure for schools, in particular pre-primary schools, including poor heating and poor water and sanitation remain a problem; (b) The quality of education remains poor and there is a low demand for professional teachers; (c) There is a high number of dropouts from schools after the primary education; (d) Study of the dominant religion in the country is a compulsory subject in the curriculum of schools. 46. Taking into account its general comment No. 1 (2001) on the aims of education , the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Invest in improving the school infrastructure, including access to heating, safe water and sanitation, in particular for buildings of pre-primary schools; (b) Allocate adequate human, technical and financial resources for improving teacher training and establish strict qualification requirements for those working as teachers; (c) Undertake a study on the root causes of dropouts from schools and provide incentives for children to continue their education in secondary school; (d) Revise the curriculum of schools in order to reflect the freedom of religion of all children and eliminate the compulsory subject of the History of Armenian Church from the curriculum. G. Other special protection measures (arts. 22, 30, 38, 39, 40, 37 (b)-(d), 3236 of the Convention) Unaccompanied, asylum-seeking and refugee children 47. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the 2008 Law on Refugees and Asylum which provides basic safeguards for the protection of unaccompanied refugee and asylumseeking children. However, the Committee regrets that the Law fails to meet minimum social and economic standards prescribed by the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees such as access to decent housing, public relief and naturalization. The Committee is also concerned that some refugee parents have been facing problems enrolling their children in schools due to the absence of documents from previous schools and translation of documents into Armenian. The Committee is further concerned that the State party’s law on citizenship has gaps which gives rise to possible statelessness of children of foreign parents or children whose parents lost Armenian citizenship. 48. In light of its general comment No 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their countries of origin , the Committee recommends that the State party amend its Law on Refugees and Asylum Seekers to provide basic safeguards and ensure its effective implementation. It also recommends that the State party ensure that all children regardless of their status have access to education and 11