States should regularly collect and analyse data disaggregated by ethnicity, gender and other relevant criteria to measure academic achievement, enrolment, attendance, completion rates and other factors that may affect educational outcomes and social and economic opportunities. Strategies, policies or measures to equalize and improve educational outcomes should be developed in consultation with parents, youth and other stakeholders in minority communities.92 Education at all levels should contribute to ensuring equal opportunities for everyone to develop the skills and knowledge to become engaged members of their society.93 Technical and vocational education, linked to both the right to education and the right to work, should be integrated at all levels of education.94 Adult education, including retraining and lifelong learning, can play an important role in helping individuals to enter and advance in the labour market and should be accessible to persons belonging to national minorities.95 Special temporary measures, such as targeted scholarships, teacher incentives or community-specific programmes, should be undertaken where needed to facilitate equal access to education and training for persons belonging to national minorities and to address barriers that limit their opportunities for social and economic participation, including intersecting forms of discrimination that have the potential to particularly affect minority girls and women.96 Education environments should be inclusive and promote opportunities for interaction and a shared respect for diversity, including through intercultural education programmes and curricula that promote equality and non-discrimination, while ensuring support for the preservation and development of diverse identities and their acceptance as valued and integral parts of diverse societies.97 States should make efforts to end any practices that lead to segregation, while respecting the education rights of persons belonging to minorities.98 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 40 ECRI, General Policy Recommendation No. 10, paragraph 3. Ljubljana Guidelines, Guideline 45. CESCR, General Comment 13 on “Education”, paragraph 15. See also: UNESCO, Convention on Technical and Vocational Education (1989); and UNESCO, Recommendation concerning technical and vocational education and training (2015). See, for example: UNESCO, Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education (2015). Ljubljana Guidelines, Guideline 45; OHCHR, FMI Recommendations, third session, paragraphs 28–29; and CESCR, General Comment No. 13: The Right to Education (article 13 of the Covenant), paragraph 32 (1999). Ljubljana Guidelines, Guideline 44; and FCNM AC, Commentary No. 1 on Education. Ljubljana Guidelines, Explanatory Note to Guideline 45. Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Social and Economic Life