Constitutional rights to education and their relationship to national policy and school enrolment

Heymann, Jody; Raub, Amy; Cassola, Adèle

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.08.005

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“…At least two researchers separately reviewed sources for each country and compared coding decisions to confirm standard interpretation and to reduce the potential for human error or inconsistency. This followed the rigorous methodology for creating quantitative indicators from detailed educational policy and legal texts used in previous studies (Heymann 2013;Quamruzzaman et al 2014;Heymann et al 2014).…”

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Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

Earle

Milovantseva

Heymann

2018

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The world has made substantial progress in increasing primary education enrollment rates, particularly among girls, following a series of global commitments to increase access to primary education including the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child, Art. 28 (1989), UN Millennium Development Goal 2 (2000), and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Education for All goals (UNESCO 1990, 2010). The greatest overall increase was among lowincome countries where primary school net enrollment rates increased from 54% in 2000 to an estimated 85% in 2015, and the female-male ratio from 0.85 to 0.94 (UNE-SCO IS 2017a). In eleven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, primary enrollment rates rose at least 20 percentage points from 1999 to 2012 (UNESCO 2015).

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Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

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Heymann

2018

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“…However, these articles contain only a limited right of access to education, surpassed by other treaties (Beiter, 2006: 123–124). These treaties will not be discussed further, nor will other international agreements that protect the equal rights of specific groups and also recognize the right to education (for an overview, see Beiter, 2006: 123; Heymann et al, 2014 and following; De Groof and Lauwers, 2005: 17–21).…”

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The fundamental human right to education for refugees: Some legal remarks

Willems

Vernimmen

2017

European Educational Research Journal

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The aim of this article is to describe the human rights obligations a State bears in educational matters with concerns to the current influx of refugees. The right to education is a fundamental human right guaranteed by many international treaties. As a result, the impression may arise that everyone, not only legal citizens but also all those lacking legal documents, can easily refer to any of these texts in order to enforce access to education and every right attached to education. The legal truth is however more complex. This article will first examine the various international legal texts: do refugees fall within the scope of application? Second, we will take a closer legal look at some issues often raised in practice when dealing with the influx of refugees: (i) can higher school fees be asked from pupils without legal documents? (ii) do refugees have a right to be taught in their own native language until they learn to speak the national language? and (iii) can they be placed in special (separate) schools or classes until they can follow the regular curriculum?

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“…In the world over, education is recognized as a fundamental right. "Constitutional protections of education range from general aspirations toward universalizing primary school to unequivocal guarantees of free and equal access to education at all levels" (Heymann, Raub & Cassola, 2014). Policies give guiding principles and procedures on how specific actions should be taken towards the achievement of set objectives.…”

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confidence: 99%