A/HRC/44/39/Add.1 (c) Eliminate all fees in public schools; (d) Extend free access to universities to non-Qatari students who have pursued their secondary education in Qatar and/or have had long residence in Qatar, on an equal basis with Qatari students. 114. The Special Rapporteur further recommends that the Government: (a) Ensure that undocumented children can access schools without being required to produce a residence permit; (b) Intensify efforts towards the inclusion of children with special needs in the regular school system; (c) Eliminate any impediment for married or pregnant girls to continue attending school; (d) Collect accurate data on out-of-school children, including migrant children, children with disabilities and married or pregnant girls; (e) Continue addressing the disengagement and poor performance of boys and their poor enrolment at the tertiary level; (f) Ensure that women are offered in practice the same possibilities as men to obtain scholarships to study abroad, and address any impediment to such opportunities. Girls should also be guaranteed access to technical secondary schools and science and technological schools on an equal basis with boys; (g) Extend the obligation to teach human rights education to private schools. Acceptability 115. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the authorities: (a) Continue their work to ensure greater autonomy for public school principals and teachers, a process that requires extensive professional training. A positive first step would be, for example, to offer a wider range of textbooks for teachers and to encourage teachers to make greater use of a variety of sources. More widely, a multi-perspective approach should be adopted in all subjects. More flexibility should also be instilled, whereby public schools would simply inform the Ministry of Education about their outside activities; (b) Pursue their efforts in the area of professional training of teachers. Measures should be adopted to solve residence permit issues for teachers and their families, and to ensure that teachers enjoy just and favourable conditions of work that guarantee a decent living for themselves and their families; (c) Ensure respect for academic freedom of both teachers and academics. In particular, the kafalah (sponsorship) system should be abolished; (d) Respect the principle of equal pay for equal work, and ensure that foreign teachers and administrative staff in public schools and universities receive the same salary as their Qatari counterparts; (e) In an effort to promote respect for the cultural heritage and social values of Qatar, including through education, ensure the right of all persons to freely participate in cultural life, including the right to discuss, develop and reinterpret the meaning of cultural practices. 116. The Special Rapporteur also recommends that Qatar: (a) Ratify the Convention against Discrimination in Education; (b) Lift its reservations to and statements on articles 7, 18 and 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 1 and 16 of the Convention against Torture; 8 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 2 and 14 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and all non- 19