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Education
- EnglishEducation is a human right and a fundamental social duty; it is democratic, free of charge and obligatory. The State assumes responsibility for it as an irrevocable function of the greatest interest, at all levels and in all modes, as an instrument of scientific, humanistic and technical knowledge at the service of society. Education, is a public service, and is grounded on the respect for all currents of thought, to the end of developing the creative potential of every human being and the full exercise of his or her personality in a democratic society based on the work ethic value and on active, conscious and joint participation in the processes of social transformation embodied in the values which are part of the national identity, and with a Latin American and universal vision. The State, with the participation of families and society, promotes the process of civic education in accordance with the principles contained in this Constitution and in the laws. (Art. 102)
- SpanishLa educación es un derecho humano y un deber social fundamental, es democrática, gratuita y obligatoria. El Estado la asumirá como función indeclinable y de máximo interés en todos sus niveles y modalidades, y como instrumento del conocimiento científico, humanístico y tecnológico al servicio de la sociedad. La educación es un servicio público y está fundamentada en el respeto a todas las corrientes del pensamiento, con la finalidad de desarrollar el potencial creativo de cada ser humano y el pleno ejercicio de su personalidad en una sociedad democrática basada en la valoración ética del trabajo y en la participación activa, consciente y solidaria en los procesos de transformación social consustanciados con los valores de la identidad nacional, y con una visión latinoamericana y universal. El Estado, con la participación de las familias y la sociedad, promoverá el proceso de educación ciudadana de acuerdo con los principios contenidos de esta Constitución y en la ley. (Art. 102)
Education
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5. The following rights established in the present Constitution, shall not be subject to any limitation whatsoever:
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9. That of free basic general and secondary general education in state educational establishments;
… (Art. 20) - Russian…
5. Не подлежит никакому ограничению установленное настоящей Конституцией право:
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9) на бесплатное получение основного общего и среднего общего образования в государственных образовательных организациях;
… (Статья 20) - Kyrgyz…
5. Ушул Конституцияда белгиленген төмөндөгүдөй укуктар эч чектелүүгө тийиш эмес:
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9) мамлекеттик билим берүү уюмдарында негизги жалпы жана орто жалпы билимди акысыз алуу;
… (20-берене)
Education
- EnglishNothing in section 57 shall prevent the holding or provision, at any educational establishment, of courses or counselling restricted to persons of a particular sex, race, ethnic or national origin, or sexual orientation, where highly personal matters, such as sexual matters or the prevention of violence, are involved. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 59)
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
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(2) Provision of free education with scholarship, from primary to higher education, shall be made by law for the Dalit students. Special provision shall be made by law for the Dalit in technical and vocational education.
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(२) दलित विद्यार्थीलाई प्राथमिकदेखि उच्च शिक्षासम्म कानून बमोजिम छात्रवृत्ति सहित निःशुल्क शिक्षाको व्यवस्था गरिनेछ । प्राविधिक र व्यावसायिक उच्च शिक्षामा दलितका लागि कानून बमोजिम विशेष व्यवस्था गरिनेछ ।
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Education
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The National Economic, Social and Environmental Council has notably for [its] mission:
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- to evaluate and to study the questions of national interest in the economic, social and environmental domains, [the domain] of education, of training and of superior teaching;
… (Art. 210) - Arabic
يتلّوى المجلس الوطني الاقتصادي والاجتمـاعي والبيئي، عـلى وجه الخصوص،مهمة:
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– تقييم المسائل ذات المصلحة الوطنية في المجال الاقتصادي والاجتماعي والبيئي والتربوي والتكويني والتعليم العالي ودراستها،
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Le Conseil national économique, social et environnemental a, notamment pour mission:
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— d'évaluer et d'étudier les questions d'intérêt national dans les domaines économique, social et environnemental, de l'éducation, de la formation et de l'enseignement supérieur;
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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.
… (Art. 93)
Education
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The Union, the states and the Federal District have the power to legislate concurrently on:
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IX – education, ... teaching,
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Compete à União, aos Estados e ao Distrito Federal legislar concorrentemente sobre:
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IX - educação … ensino,
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3. Education and Educational Services– Education to the extent set out in Appendix III.
… (Ninth Schedule, List I: Provincial Council List) - Sinhala…
3. අධ්යාපනය සහ අධ්යාපන සේවා - III වන පරිශිෂ්ටයේ දක්වා ඇති ප්රමාණයට, අධ්යාපනය.
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