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Education
- English
1. Everyone has the right to education.
2. Mandatory school education is determined by law.
3. Public general high school education is open for all.
4. Professional high school education and higher education may be conditioned only on aptitude criteria.
5. Mandatory education and general high school education in public schools are free.
... (Art. 57) - Albanian
1. Kushdo ka të drejtën për arsimim.
2. Arsimi shkollor i detyrueshëm caktohet me ligj.
3. Arsimi i mesëm i përgjithshëm publik është i hapur për të gjithë.
4. Arsimi i mesëm profesional dhe i lartë mund të kushtëzohet vetëm nga kritere aftësie.
5. Arsimi i detyrueshëm, si dhe arsimi i mesëm i përgjithshëm në shkollat publike është falas.
... (Neni 57)
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།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Education
- EnglishEducation is free.
It is nevertheless subject to the supervision of the public powers, under the conditions established by the law.
All persons have access to establishments of national education, without discrimination of place of origin, of race, of religion, of sex, of political or philosophical opinions, of their physical, mental or sensorial state in accordance with their capacities.
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The public authorities have the duty to promote and to assure, through teaching, education and diffusion, the respect of the rights of man, of the fundamental freedoms and of the duties of the citizens provided by this Constitution.
The public powers have the duty to assure the diffusion and the teaching of the Constitution, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, the African Charter of the Rights of Man and of Peoples, as well as all the duly ratified regional and international conventions concerning the rights of man and to international humanitarian law.
… (Art. 45) - FrenchL’enseignement est libre.
Il est toutefois soumis à la surveillance des pouvoirs publics, dans les conditions fixées par la loi.
Toute personne a accès aux établissements d’enseignement national, sans discrimination de lieu d’origine, de race, de religion, de sexe, d’opinions politiques ou philosophiques, de son état physique, mental ou sensoriel, selon ses capacités.
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Les pouvoirs publics ont le devoir de promouvoir et d’assurer, par l’enseignement, l’éducation et la diffusion, le respect des droits de l’homme, des libertés fondamentales et des devoirs du citoyen énoncés dans la présente Constitution.
Les pouvoirs publics ont le devoir d’assurer la diffusion et l’enseignement de la Constitution, de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, de la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples, ainsi que de toutes les conventions régionales et internationales relatives aux droits de l’homme et au droit international humanitaire dûment ratifiées.
… (Art. 45)
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
- EnglishThe Nation guarantees equal access for children and adults to instruction, vocational training and culture. The provision of free, public and secular education at all levels is a duty of the State. (1946 Preamble, Sec. 13)
- FrenchLa Nation garantit l'égal accès de l'enfant et de l'adulte à l'instruction, à la formation professionnelle et à la culture. L'organisation de l'enseignement public gratuit et laïque à tous les degrés est un devoir de l'Etat. (Préambule 1946, Sec. 13)
Education
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The law determines in addition the fundamental principles:
– of education;
… (Art. 47) - French
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La loi détermine en outre les principes fondamentaux:
- de l’enseignement;
... (Art. 47)
Education
- EnglishIn all the institutions of education, public or private, the study of the Constitution and the Civic Instruction will be obligatory. In the same way, democratic practices for the apprenticeship to the principles and values of citizen participation shall be promoted. The State shall disseminate the Constitution. (Art.41)
- SpanishEn todas las instituciones de educación, oficiales o privadas, serán obligatorios el estudio de la Constitución y la Instrucción Cívica. Así mismo se fomentarán prácticas democráticas para el aprendizaje de los principios y valores de la participación ciudadana. El Estado divulgará la Constitución. (Art. 41)
Education
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Parents and guardians shall, without restrictions, take care of the religious and moral education of their children and wards according to their own convictions. (Art. 26) - Lithuanian…
Tėvai ir globėjai nevaržomi rūpinasi vaikų ir globotinių religiniu ir doroviniu auklėjimu pagal savo įsitikinimus. (26 straipsnis)
Education
- EnglishThe Republic shall, because of the vital role assigned to the individual citizen under this Constitution for the social, economic and political well being of Liberia, provide equal access to educational opportunities and facilities for all citizens to the extent of available resources. Emphasis shall be placed on the mass education of the Liberian people and the elimination of illiteracy. (Art. 6)
Education
- EnglishThe State shall actively promote the welfare and development of the people of Malawi by progressively adopting and implementing policies and legislation aimed at achieving the following goals—
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f. Education
To provide adequate resources to the education sector and devise programmes in order to—
i. eliminate illiteracy in Malawi;
ii. make primary education compulsory and free to all citizens of Malawi;
iii. offer greater access to higher learning and continuing education;
… (Sec. 13)