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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
- 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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(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
- 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
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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.
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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
- 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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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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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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