Education: aims and coverage

The Committee recommends that the State Party:

(a) Ensure equal educational opportunities for all, especially those belonging to vulnerable groups, including children with a migrant background, refugees and asylum-seeking children and children from Indigenous and ethnic minorities

(b) Continue to strengthen measures to improve the quality of Sami-language education and take measures to improve the competence of teachers regarding the Sami and national minorities

(c) Improve learning outcomes and reduce rising school dropout rates, particularly among migrant children, children belonging to minority groups, such as Roma and Sami children, and children in alternative care

(d) Reduce school absenteeism or “school refusal” among children who have been subjected to bullying and harassment, children with disabilities and children with mental health conditions, and ensure that such children are supported to finish their education

(e) Strengthen measures to combat violence in schools, including bullying, cyberbullying and online violence, and discrimination on the grounds of race, migration status, sexual orientation or gender identity in the school context