Abstract
Education is considered one of the basic human rights that international covenants have emphasized, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued in 1948, which emphasized the importance of education in Article (26/1), which means that everyone has the right to receive education, and that it should be free at least in the primary stages, and that it should also be compulsory, and that university education should be available to all according to their ability. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also emphasized the importance of education and the necessity that it should be free and compulsory, especially in the primary stages, and other international covenants. These covenants have been keen to ensure the protection of this right and the necessity for all individuals to enjoy it, in order to obtain culture, science, knowledge and innovation and get rid of ignorance and backwardness. In addition, receiving education contributes to reducing the illiteracy rate, but this right faces a new challenge, which is students dropping out of school, as dropping out of school is considered an obstacle and a challenge facing the right to education guaranteed by national constitutions, in addition to international covenants and declarations. Constitutions did not stop at emphasizing the right to education, but some of them made education Free of charge, including the permanent Iraqi constitution. However, Iraq witnessed a significant decline in the level of education after 2003 due to the lack of proper implementation of the compulsory education law, in addition to the decline in the infrastructure of this important and vital sector. Schools have become insufficient and government universities are insufficient to accommodate the number of students. Therefore, many schools in Iraq resort to double shifts, and other reasons that have led to negative results for education and teaching. This has also led to the spread of negative phenomena such as the phenomenon of school dropout by school students. This phenomenon is inconsistent with the compulsory education law in Iraq, especially since the right to education is one of the basic rights that countries of the world pay great attention to, based on an important criterion, which is that the right to education is the basis for scientific, cultural, economic and social progress. Through the education that a person receives, he will acquire the knowledge, culture, values and morals that surround him. Education also makes him able to adapt and interact within the environment and society to which he belongs. The expansion of the popular base of the education sector and its transformation into the largest social sector gathering the human element has prompted many advanced and developing governments to adopt comprehensive strategies that remove the absolute tradition between school and work. Life and linking this sector to the needs of economic and social development more, so we find that education today, based on this theory, is working to develop the educational and pedagogical aspect in order to advance it and address the problems and challenges facing education, the most prominent of which is the problem of school dropout by students.