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Education
- English(1) Everyone has the right to education. School attendance shall be obligatory for the period specified by law.
(2) Citizens have the right to free elementary and secondary school education, and, depending on particular citizens’ ability and the capability of society, also to university-level education.
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(4) The conditions under which citizens have the right to assistance from the state during their studies shall be set by law. (Charter, Art. 33) - Czech(1) Každý má právo na vzdělání. Školní docházka je povinná po dobu, kterou stanoví zákon.
(2) Občané mají právo na bezplatné vzdělání v základních a středních školách, podle schopností občana a možností společnosti též na vysokých školách.
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(4) Zákon stanoví, za jakých podmínek mají občané při studiu právo na pomoc státu. (Listina, Čl. 33)
Education
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(6) Every Swazi child shall within three years of the commencement of this Constitution have the right to free education in public schools at least up to the end of primary school, beginning with the first grade.
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Education
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2. A child is entitled to basic education which shall be the responsibility of the State and the parents of the child.
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Education
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15. The State shall endeavour to provide education for the purpose of improving and increasing knowledge, values and skills of the entire population with education being directed towards the full development of the human personality.
16. The State shall provide free education to all children of school going age up to tenth standard and ensure that technical and professional education is made generally available and that higher education is equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༡༥) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཤེས་ཡོན་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་མིའི་གཤིས་སྤྱོད་ཧྲིལ་པོར་གོང་འཕེལ་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ དམིགས་ཏེ་ མི་སེར་ཆ་མཉམ་གྱི་ཤེས་བྱ་དང་ ཁྱད་ཆོས་ རིག་རྩལ་གྱི་ལེགས་བཅོས་དང་ འཕེལ་སྐྱེད་གཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ ཤེས་ཡོན་བྱིན་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༡༦) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ སློབ་གྲྭར་འཛུལ་རན་པའི་ལོ་ཚད་ལོན་མི་ཨ་ལོ་ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་ སློབ་རིམ་བཅུ་ པ་ཚུན་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྟོང་པར་བྱིན་ནི་དང་ བཟོ་རིག་དང་ཁྱད་རིག་གི་ཤེས་ཡོན་འདི་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ གིས་ཡོདཔ་ངེས་གཏན་བཟོ་ནི་དང་ མཐོ་རིམ་ཤེས་ཡོན་དེ་ གཟེངས་ཐོན་ལུ་གཞི་བཞག་སྟེ་ ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་འདྲ་མཉམ་ཐོབ་ཚུགསཔ་བཟོ་དགོ།
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Education
- EnglishEveryone has the right to education. The State shall ensure that everyone may acquire primary and secondary education without charge. Primary education shall be compulsory. (Art. 112)
- LatvianIkvienam ir tiesības uz izglītību. Valsts nodrošina iespēju bez maksas iegūt pamatizglītību un vidējo izglītību. Pamatizglītība ir obligāta. (Art. 112)
Education
- English(1) Every child has the right—
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(b) to free and compulsory basic education;
… (Art. 53) - Swahili(1) Kila mtoto ana haki—
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(b) ya kupata elimu ya msingi kwa lazima na bila malipo;
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Education
- EnglishI. The State shall be obligated to sufficiently subsidize the public universities, independently of the departmental, municipal and their own resources, which have been or are to be created.
… (Art. 93) - SpanishI. Las universidades públicas serán obligatoria y suficientemente subvencionadas por el Estado, independientemente de sus recursos departamentales, municipales y propios, creados o por crearse.
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Education
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1. Education shall be the constant concern of the Government.
2. All persons shall be free to provide education, without prejudice to the authorities’ right of supervision and, with regard to forms of education designated by law, their right to examine the competence and moral integrity of teachers, to be regulated by Act of Parliament.
3. Education provided by public authorities shall be regulated by Act of Parliament, paying due respect to everyone’s religion or belief.
4. The authorities shall ensure that primary education is provided in a sufficient number of public-authority schools in every municipality and in each of the public bodies referred to in Article 132a. Deviations from this provision may be permitted under rules to be established by Act of Parliament on condition that there is opportunity to receive the said form of education, whether in a public-authority school or otherwise.
… (Art. 23) - Dutch
1. Het onderwijs is een voorwerp van de aanhoudende zorg der regering.
2. Het geven van onderwijs is vrij, behoudens het toezicht van de overheid en, voor wat bij de wet aangewezen vormen van onderwijs betreft, het onderzoek naar de bekwaamheid en de zedelijkheid van hen die onderwijs geven, een en ander bij de wet te regelen.
3. Het openbaar onderwijs wordt, met eerbiediging van ieders godsdienst of levensovertuiging, bij de wet geregeld.
4. In elke gemeente en in elk van de openbare lichamen, bedoeld in artikel 132a, wordt van overheidswege voldoend openbaar algemeen vormend lager onderwijs gegeven in een genoegzaam aantal openbare scholen. Volgens bij de wet te stellen regels kan afwijking van deze bepaling worden toegelaten, mits tot het ontvangen van zodanig onderwijs gelegenheid wordt gegeven, al dan niet in een openbare school.
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Education
- English1. Everyone shall have the right to education. Education to 18 years of age shall be compulsory. The manner of fulfilment of schooling obligations shall be specified by statute.
2. Education in public schools shall be without payment. Statutes may allow for payments for certain services provided by public institutions of higher education.
3. Parents shall have the right to choose schools other than public for their children.
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4. Public authorities shall ensure universal and equal access to education for citizens. To this end, they shall establish and support systems for individual financial and organizational assistance to pupils and students. The conditions for providing of such assistance shall be specified by statute.
... (Art. 70) - Polish1. Każdy ma prawo do nauki. Nauka do 18 roku życia jest obowiązkowa. Sposób wykonywania obowiązku szkolnego określa ustawa.
2. Nauka w szkołach publicznych jest bezpłatna. Ustawa może dopuścić świadczenie niektórych usług edukacyjnych przez publiczne szkoły wyższe za odpłatnością.
3. Rodzice mają wolność wyboru dla swoich dzieci szkół innych niż publiczne.
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4. Władze publiczne zapewniają obywatelom powszechny i równy dostęp do wykształcenia. W tym celu tworzą i wspierają systemy indywidualnej pomocy finansowej i organizacyjnej dla uczniów i studentów. Warunki udzielania pomocy określa ustawa.
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Education
- EnglishThe State will sponsor and organize the education of adults, destined to combat illiteracy and to provide [a] cultural opportunity to those who wish to improve their intellectual, social and economic condition. (Art. 83)
- SpanishEl Estado patrocinará y organizará la educación de adultos, destinada a combatir el analfabetismo y a proporcionar oportunidad cultural a aquéllos que deseen mejorar su condición intelectual, social y económica. (Art. 83)