A/HRC/28/20 three years or a fine not exceeding €50,000, or both penalties, and all related documents are liable to seizure and destruction. G. Right to education 45. According to article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to education.44 Education should be directed to the full development of the human personality and the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; it should promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and it should further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. Furthermore, parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that is given to their children. 46. Universities in the northern part of the island are not recognized by the Republic of Cyprus, and Turkish Cypriot students still face limited access to European Union exchange and educational programmes. A scholarship scheme for the Turkish Cypriot community was set up by the European Commission under European Union Council Regulation (EC) No. 389/2006 in order to compensate for this lack of mobility. The scheme allows Turkish Cypriot students and professionals to spend up to one academic year abroad at a university or other host institution in the European Union. The purpose is both to ensure academic attainment and to bring Turkish Cypriots closer to the culture and values of the European Union. In the 2012-13 academic year 2012/13, 28 students and teachers were granted scholarships to participate in the scheme. In the academic year 2013/14, 181 participants were granted scholarships, including undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professionals, and Turkish Cypriots were, for the first time ever, offered the option of studying at a university in the southern part of the island through the scheme. According to the Task Force for the Turkish Cypriot Community of the Directorate-General for Enlargement of the European Commission, the Directorate-General also signed grant contracts with 10 Turkish Cypriot schools in 2013 and 2014 to benefit from modern teaching and management methods and to promote collaboration with Greek Cypriot schools. 47. In the light of the fundamental human right to education, the Government of Cyprus expressed deep concern in February 2014 that the replacement of a nursery teacher at Rizokarpaso Nursery School in the northern part of the island had been rejected by the Turkish Cypriot side. While an alternative in this case was later proposed and approved, the appointments of seven teachers for the academic year 2014/15 were rejected, and two teachers who had been serving there for a number of years had their appointments terminated. UNFICYP noted that the Turkish Cypriot authorities also continued to vet all textbooks used for teaching in these schools. There were again no new developments regarding the establishment of a Turkish language school in Limassol in the southern part of the island.45 44 45 14 See also International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, arts. 13 and 14, and Convention on the Rights of the Child, arts. 28 and 29. S/2014/461. See also the oral statements during the review of Cyprus by the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review on 4 February 2014 (A/HRC/26/14), para. 69 (Turkey) and para. 107 (Cyprus).