The Reporting Procedure 4 60. Indicate the measures taken to make secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational education, generally available and accessible to all, including: (a) Concrete steps taken by the State party towards progressively achieving free secondary education; and (b) The availability of technical and vocational education, and whether it enables students to acquire knowledge and skills which contribute to their personal development, self-reliance and employability. 61. Indicate the measures taken to make higher education equally accessible to all and without discrimination, on the basis of capacity, and the concrete steps taken towards progressively achieving free higher education. 62. Indicate the measures taken to promote literacy, as well as adult and continuing education, in a life-long perspective. 63. Indicate whether minority and indigenous children have adequate opportunities to receive instruction in or of their native language and the steps taken to prevent lower educational standards for these children, their segregation in special classes, and their exclusion from mainstream education. 64. Indicate the measures taken to ensure the same admission criteria for boys and girls at all levels of education, and to raise awareness among parents, teachers and decision-makers on the value of educating girls. 65. Indicate the measures taken to reduce the drop-out rates, at the primary and secondary levels, for children and young persons, in particular girls, children from ethnic minorities, indigenous communities and poorer households, as well as migrant, refugee and internally displaced children. 4.1.3. Format of reports The information which a State party considers relevant for illustrating the implementation of a treaty should be presented in a concise and structured manner. While it is understandable that some States have more complex national frameworks than others, whether legislative or institutional, reports should not be excessively long. State parties should abide by the word limits established by General Assembly Resolution 68/268 for all State party documentation submitted to the Human Rights Treaty Body System, in accordance with which common core documents should not exceed 42,400 words, initial treaty-specific reports should not exceed 31,800 words, and treaty-specific periodic reports should be limited to 21,200 words. This applies to reports submitted under either the Standard or Simplified Reporting Procedure. Reports exceeding the word limit are returned for redrafting. Reports should be comprehensible and accurate. They should contain a full explanation of all abbreviations used in the text, especially when referring to national institutions, organizations, laws and so on. Reports must be submitted in one of the official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian or Spanish). Reports submitted by States whose official language is not one of the official languages of the United Nations may be edited by the Secretariat before being sent for translation into the official working languages of the respective Committee. The treatment of report annexes has already been covered in an earlier paragraph. 39