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vocational training; the insufficient number of trained teachers and available school facilities;
and the poor quality of education. The Committee is concerned that considerable challenges still
hamper eliminating inequalities which disadvantage children’s access to education, in particular
in rural regions and among nomadic groups, and on the basis of ethnicity and sex. Finally, the
Committee notes the information given during the dialogue that schools and military camps are
separated, but is still concerned over information that secondary school students have to undergo
obligatory military training.
67.
The Committee recommends that the State party, taking into account its general
comment No. 1 (2001) on the aims of education:
(a) Ensure that primary education is free and compulsory and take the
necessary measures to ensure that all children are enrolled in primary education;
(b) Increase public expenditure for education, in particular primary education,
with specific attention to improving access and addressing sex, socio-economic, ethnic and
regional disparities in the enjoyment of the right to education;
(c) Train more teachers, especially female, and improve school facilities, notably
water and sanitation, in particular in rural areas and among nomadic groups;
(d) Undertake additional efforts to ensure access to adaptable informal
education of high quality to vulnerable groups, including street children, orphans, refugee
and displaced children, children with disabilities and child domestic workers, inter alia by
addressing indirect and hidden costs of school education;
(e) Further expand preschool facilities supplied with qualified teachers, make
them free of costs and make special attempts to include children from vulnerable and
school distant groups at early ages;
(f) Ensure that secondary school students do not have to undertake obligatory
military training;
(g) Strengthen vocational training, including for children who have left school
before completion;
(h)
Include human rights education as part of the curriculum;
(i)
Seek technical assistance from UNESCO and UNICEF, in particular to
improve access to education for girls.