overall area amounting to around one and half hectares, and in terms of the average number of students in each academic stage, or in terms of the average number of students in the educational institution in general; this is in addition to the conditions for selecting the teaching staff in each stage, where the Ministry relies on selecting teachers of relatively equal intellectual endowment and knowledge of the curricula, the syllabi, the textbooks, and the number and hours of lessons, along with the presence of scientific laboratories and computer labs, the availability of electronic access, extracurricular activities, and the availability of the suitable infrastructure and the ancillary facilities. 20. As to the curricula and syllabi in educations institutions, the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain has given due regard to developing the knowledge of the student in all fields, whereupon the courses for the elementary, preparatory and secondary school phases included a number of diverse syllabi dealing with the Arabic Language, the unified Islamic education syllabi for public and private schools which include a number of principles and values common to the religions and schools of thought, and include the views of the two religious sects constituting the Bahraini society, the Sunni and Ja`afari, while the non-Muslim student is not obliged to study this course whether he is Bahraini or foreign, in addition to geography and commerce, science, arithmetic and mathematics, the English Language with a view to developing the language skills of students in all educational phases, the French language (only for secondary school students), courses related to family education and sports, and technical, information technology and communications courses. 15 21. Within the framework of the strivings of the Ministry of Education to promote the values of citizenship and human rights, it generated syllabi and books particular to education in citizenship and human rights, regarding all the academic stages starting with the elementary education stage and culminating with secondary education. Moreover, new syllabi were developed dealing with the voluntary work particularly as relates to the secondary stage, in addition to the presence of activities particular to this activity which are implemented for the elementary and preparatory stages. 22. Based on the keenness of the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain to safeguard the right of the person to enjoy the finest educational standard from the very first stages, Article (8) of Law No. (27) of 2005 has imposed concerning education punishments and financial fines on the father of the child or his guardian in case the child who has reached the compulsory age fails to enrol in school, where the Article expressly states that,” a fine shall be imposed on the father of a child or his guardian in cause he causes the failure of the child who reached compulsory age to enrol in school, or discontinues without an acceptable excuse from showing a presence in school for ten continuous or discontinuous days during the academic year, and no criminal suit shall be instituted in the two cases except upon the request of the Ministry, and upon notifying the one in breach by registered mail with a receipt.”. This is in addition to the strivings of the Ministry of Education to monitor cases of the failure of students to attend school at the compulsory age and to endeavour to analyse those cases with a view to identifying the causes and following up on them while attempting to restore the students to their school seats. 15 Manual of books and syllabi, published in the official website of the Ministry of Education: moe.gov.bh/archive/books.aspx 96