Education systems, governance and delivery.

 The right to education today is no longer the sole responsibility of the Ministry of Education. Intersectoral collaboration is needed to reflect the interdependence of rights and the priority increasingly afforded to the lifelong learning approach, inclusive education and equity. Obligations in the international legal framework that detail State responsibilities as to minimum standards and financing of education could also be refined to ensure accountability. Teachers need more protection in the international legal framework, in terms of training, employment rights and renumeration. The right to education must also find just ways to regulate the role of non-state actors in the education sector and redress the balance between their involvement and that of the public authorities. Finally, the safety of learners and their data online also requires attention in any reiteration of the right to education

Amendments/additions to the right to education framework could be considered:

• Construct systems of governance that are intersectoral, coordinated and take a lifelong, system-wide approach to the right to education, recognizing the interdependence of this right with many other human rights, including but not limited to, the right to health, work, and gender equality. • Guarantee regular, transparent and participatory monitoring, by establishing appropriate mechanisms, and ensuring the collection of reliable disaggregated data to tackle discrimination and achieve equality. • Prioritize the financing and provision of free, quality, public education, by allocating the maximum available resources to education, including the mobilization of both internal resources and/or seeking resources from the international community where necessary, as well as through cost-effective and efficient approaches, resisting austerity measures that reduce education spending and combatting corruption, mismanagement and tax evasion. • Establish a clear regulatory framework which define minimum education standards covering all substantive, procedural, and operational requirements, including for digital education, for which all public and non-state actors (including homeschooling parents/caregivers where relevant) must comply, and regularly monitor their compliance to these standards. • Ensure that teaching is adequately recognized as a profession requiring expert knowledge and specialized skills, and that teachers and educators should be empowered, adequately recruited and remunerated, motivated, professionally qualified, and supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems. • Guarantee the rights of teachers to training, including pre-service, in-service and continuing professional teacher training, including training in inclusive education and digital instruction (critical digital literacy, training in deployment and usage of digital learning solutions), and ensure teaching training standards at each level of education. • Recognize the rights of ECCE personnel, including all those with an educator function in the early years, TVET and non-formal educators, as well as the rights for those on temporary and part-time contracts. • Guarantee that the provision of education by non-state actors does not undermine the responsibility of the State in providing education, nor replace access to quality, free public education. • Non-state actors should ensure full transparency including with regard to their fees and other charges and ensure the protection of learners’ rights in the context of failure or delay in the payment of fees. • Profit-making practices could be limited in education at compulsory levels to ensure market-driven approaches do not undermine the right to education. • Prohibit direct or indirect state funding or support of any non-state education provider that is commercial, excessively pursues its own self-interest or that charges fees that undermine access to education (and foresee measurement indicators for its enforcement). • Take measures to ensure that the right to privacy of learners and teachers is respected and protected by all state and non-state actors that process their data,