The Universal Right to Free and Compulsory Education and the Issue of School Dropout or Early School Leaving in Sri Lanka

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, , course: Master of Laws, language: English, abstract: The objective of this study is to recommend suitable legal reforms to overcome the issue of school dropouts in Sri Lanka on the back of the right for education as a universal human right.

The research methodology adopted for the study is comparative in nature and desk based. Constructive comparison of the other jurisdiction is the most affirmative method as it serves the objective of this study to recommend suitable legal reforms. This study accordingly recommends that right to education should be guaranteed as a fundamental right and that further legislations have to be established to protect the right. This study has some policy concerns for policymakers, such as recommendation to increase the annual budget allocation on free education programs, and to make, take up the concept of "Every Child Matters "at each and every policy making situation.

Chapter one will discuss the background of and significance for compulsory education in Sri Lanka, before the methodology is lined out, closely followed a literature review. In Chapter four, the literature will be extensively discussed and analyzed, before, in a last chapter, final recommodations are given.