Annex One: Draft Recommendations ‘Essential requirement for an effective education strategy 1. States should approach the education of minorities in a positive spirit. Measures should be adopted by States to actively implement education rights to the maximum of their available resources, individually and through international assistance and co-operation. 2. States should review, enact and amend legislation where necessary to eliminate discrimination and promote quality education for all members of minorities. 3. States should create conditions enabling institutions which are representative of minorities to participate in a meaningful way in the development and implementation of policies and programmes relating to education for minorities. 4. The costing of educational policies should proceed accurately as possible on the basis of holistic appraisals of minority needs. 5. Budgetary allocations for minority education should be transparent and amenable to external scrutiny. 6. Institutions and programmes for the education of minorities must be made available, including buildings, teachers and appropriate teaching materials including books in the mother tongue of the minorities. 7. Educational services should be arranged in order to reach minority communities throughout the national territory, and should be adequate to address the needs of such communities. 8. States should recognise that the adequate recruitment, training and incentivisation of teachers to work in areas inhabited predominantly by members of minorities is a factor of utmost importance in the delivery of adequate educational services and should arrange teacher training programmes accordingly. 9. State or local policies of educational segregation through special classes or special schools for minority pupils, including policies leading to over-representation of minority pupils in such, are strongly discouraged and in no case should minority pupils be assigned to special classes or schools simply on the basis of their ethnicity. 10. Education should be available at all levels for minorities, from pre-school to tertiary education, as well as technical and vocational education, on a basis of equality with other learners.