A/HRC/26/27 On 28 October, he was a guest speaker in New York for the launch of the book Ready to Learn: a Legal Resource for Realizing the Right to Education, published by the Legal Resources Centre, South Africa. 15. On 7 November, the Special Rapporteur addressed the Education Commission of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris during the debate on “Education beyond 2015”, emphasizing the importance of ensuring that education is preserved as a public good. 16. From 25 to 30 November, the Special Rapporteur attended a regional workshop on Education for All in Africa in Algiers, hosted by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, and addressed the opening session of the workshop on key challenges in realizing the Education for All agenda and the right to basic education. 17. On 3 December, the Special Rapporteur gave the opening address at a seminar organized by the University of Extremadura, Spain, in cooperation with the Government of Extremadura and Collège Henry Dunant, Geneva, aimed at encouraging reforms in the universities of the Maghreb by introducing a rights-based approach. 18. On 10 and 11 December, he participated as an expert in the national education summit, organized by the Government of Gujarat, India, and addressed the opening session, highlighting the importance of the right to education in nation-building. 19. On 19 January 2014, the Special Rapporteur addressed the regional forum on the protection of the right to education during insecurity and armed conflict in the Middle East and North Africa region, organized by the United Nations Human Rights Training Centre, in Doha. 20. On 21 February, he participated in an event organized in Paris by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and UNESCO to celebrate International Mother Language Day and addressed the audience on local language, global citizenship and the right to education. 21. On 3 and 4 March, the Special Rapporteur participated in an international conference on the “Enforcement of international human rights law through the mechanism of United Nations Special Rapporteurs” organized by the international law and organizations programme at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, in collaboration with its centre at Bologna, and spoke on the justiciability and enforcement of the right to education. 22. On 7 March, the Special Rapporteur was a guest speaker at an event organized by International Relations Consulting Network and Lobbying at the European Parliament in Brussels, where he spoke on the post-2015 development agenda and the right to an education perspective. On 31 March, he participated in the Alliance2015 round table on education on the theme of “Enhancing EU impact on education for global sustainable development” in Copenhagen. On 16 March, he participated in briefings for the permanent missions in New York on the post-2015 development agenda, organized by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in New York. III. Towards a holistic, human rights-based approach to the assessment of the educational attainments of students 23. Fulfilment of State obligations for the right to education is dependent upon how the education provided meets the essential objectives of the right to education, as shown by the educational attainments of students. This calls for national assessments of education to be driven by a human rights-based approach, where the full range of obligations arising from the right to education remains centre stage. The Special Rapporteur would like to emphasize the need and importance of a holistic approach which is broader than the narrow 5