CRC/C/15/Add.225 page 11 guaranteed free primary and secondary education under Armenian law. The Committee reiterates in this regard its concern that low wages have forced teachers to offer private tuition, creating a two-tier system of education. The Committee is also concerned about the low rate of early childhood education and the high rates of non-attendance, absenteeism and dropout in primary and secondary education. Moreover, in line with the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/61/CO/1), the Committee expresses its concern about the inadequate access by minority children to education in their mother tongue. 55. The Committee recommends the State party: (a) Allocate the required resources (human, technical and financial) to ensure access to quality education for all children, including the most vulnerable groups; (b) Develop indicators for quality education and ensure that the quality of education is monitored and guaranteed; (c) Continue efforts to remove obstacles to school attendance at all levels in order to keep all children in school and provide programmes that bring dropout students back in school or offer them other appropriate educational/vocational programmes; (d) Direct greater efforts to improving the quality of teacher training programmes, and improving the school environment; (e) Ensure, whenever possible, that children belonging to minority groups have access to education in their mother tongue; (f) Seek assistance from, among others, UNICEF, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and relevant international NGOs. Leisure, recreation and cultural activities 56. The Committee notes with concern the general deterioration in children’s access to quality leisure facilities like sports centres and public libraries. 57. The Committee recommends that the State party give priority to improving children’s access to, and quality of, sports centres, cultural institutions and other leisure facilities. 8. Special protection measures Unaccompanied, asylum-seeking and refugee children 58. The Committee is concerned that the situation of a large number of refugees from Azerbaijan who arrived in Armenia between 1988 and 1992 as a result of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict has still not been settled. It is concerned that this group remains one of the most vulnerable groups in Armenia.