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ooks and other schooling supplies. Itreiterates its concern about the low rateof enrolment in secondary education andthat children living in the remotebarangays have very limited access tosecondary education. The Committeenotes with appreciation that the Stateparty has made intense efforts to improvethe quality of education by increasingthe time spent on task and teachingmethods that encourage children’s participation.It also welcomes the expansionand improvement of pre-service andin-service teacher training. TheCommittee also recognizes the attemptsto regularly monitor and evaluate thequality of education.70. In the light of articles 28 and 29 of theConvention and the Committee’s generalcomment No. 1 (2001) on the aims ofeducation, the Committee recommendsthat the State party allocate adequate financial,human and technical resourcesin order to:(a) Increase budgetary allocations, governmentalsubsidies and assistance programmesfor children from low-incomefamilies in order to secure their equalaccess to education of all levels;(b) Urgently take all necessary measuresto ensure universal and free primaryeducation for all and pay particularattention to the schooling opportunitiesin the most remote barangays and to theeducational needs of children belongingto vulnerable groups, such as childrenliving in poverty, children with disabilities,indigenous children, childlabourers, children in armed conflict,children infected with or affected byHIV/AIDS and street children, in orderto fulfil their right to education;(c) Adopt effective measures torapidly decrease the drop-out rate in primaryand secondary school;(d) Provide access to early childhoodeducation for every child making it affordablefor poor families and raiseawareness of the benefits of preschoolsand early-learning opportunitiesamong parents;(e) Develop and upgrade the infrastructureof the educational system bybuilding new schools and classrooms,developing textbooks and other schoolsupplies, enhancing teacher training andadopting innovative and interactive81