D. Right to Education i) Indicate what legislative and administrative steps have been taken to ensure that all children enjoy their right to free and compulsory primary education. ii) Indicate what legislative and administrative steps have been taken to implement policies to eliminate or reduce the costs of attending primary school which include the provision of stipends, providing free or subsidised uniforms (or lifting of uniform requirements), provision of free textbooks, provision of free or subsidised transportation or free school meals to encourage the attendance of poor children at school. iii) Indicate what legislative and administrative steps have been taken to ensure that secondary education is made generally available and accessible to all by appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education. iv) Indicate what legislative and administrative steps have been taken to ensure that tertiary education is made generally available and accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by all appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education. v) Indicate what steps have been taken to ensure continuing education. vi) Indicate how national plans and policies adopted and implemented by the State meet the requirements of paras 71 (iii) to (xv) 5 of the Principles and Guidelines and particularly what steps have been taken to ensure: a) That the teaching of African national languages is introduced at primary school level. b) The liberty of parents and guardians to establish and choose schools for their children, other than those established by the public authorities, which conform to such minimum educational standards as may be laid down or approved by the State, and to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions. c) Academic freedom and institutional autonomy in all institutions of higher learning. vii) Indicate what steps have been taken to implement the obligations set out in paras 71 (xvi) to (xxv)6 of the Principles and Guidelines, particularly the obligation to ensure that all children, including those belonging to such groups, enjoy equal access to the educational system. Indicate what steps have been taken to ensure gender equality at all levels of education. 5 These are obligations relating to developing and implementing National Plans, Policies and Systems, which should ensure access for all, without discrimination, to education. 6 These refer to the obligations of the states to take special measures to ensure Equality and Non-Discrimination and the rights of members of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. 5