15. To enable persons to fully enjoy the right to education, there should be available under the aegis of the legal authority of the Sate educational and training institutions of adequate numbers, whose educational buildings are endowed with trained teachers who avail of competitive wages, and suitable and advanced curricula, in addition to providing libraries containing computers. Moreover, the enrolment in educational and training institutions should be easily available to all and free of charge in its first stages without any discrimination, along with the possibility of accessing those institutions safely, whereby they are at a geographic location that is suitable for individuals, or by providing suitable means of transportation for purposes of having access to them. 16. Technical and vocational education constitutes an important part of the right to education in its applied and practical aspect, given that it is a contributor to achieving economic, social and cultural development with a view to reaching a situation where there is a working and productive segment in society. Moreover, the technical and vocational education aims to enable the students to acquire knowledge and skills contributing to their personal development, and which enhance the productivity of their families and community. Actually, the importance of technical and vocational education is evidenced in its being an opportunity for developing the productive role of the students, who are irregular students, school drop-outs, the unemployed, or those with physical handicaps and others. 17. At the level of practical implementation to make available the finest educational services in the Kingdom, the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain has guaranteed free and compulsory elementary education, in addition to the fact that preparatory and secondary education is free of charge in all governmental school, such pursuant to Articles (6) and (7) of Law No. (27) of 2005 concerning education which expressly state, “6- Elementary education is the entitlement of children who reach the age of six years at the start of the academic year, and the Kingdom undertakes to provide it to them, and the parents or guardians are obligated to comply, such across at least nine academic years. The Minister shall issue the necessary decisions to implement and regulate the compulsory education as relates to the parents and guardians. And it is permissible in case of the availability of places in the basic education schools to accept those whose age is under the compulsory age in accordance with the rules and parameters provided in the decision of the Minister. 7- The elementary and secondary education in the schools of the Kingdom is free of charge...” 18. Actually, the number of governmental schools provided by the Ministry of Education according to statistics issued by it for the academic year (2014-2015)14 is two hundred and seven schools distributed across the various governorates of the Kingdom, such according to the following division: One hundred and thirteen elementary schools (55) of which are for females and (58) for males, and fifty seven preparatory schools, (28) for females and (29) for males, and thirty seven preparatory schools, (19) for females and (18 )for males, while the number of private educational institutions in the Kingdom reached, according to the same statistical survey, two hundred and twenty five private educational institutions. 19. The Ministry of Education adopted uniform standards and conditions in building and establishing all its educational institutions irrespective of the academic stages, whether in terms of the average 14 Statistics on the governmental schools in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the academic year (2014-2015), issued by the Ministry of Education: www.moe.gov.bh/statistics.aspx 95