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Lithuania's former education and science minister Audronė Pitrėnienė confused her public and private interest by taking care of the premises of King Mindaugas Vocational Education Center and later taking a post in the center, the Chief Official Ethics Commission found on Wednesday.
The results of the Lithuanian parliamentary elections in multi-member voting shows fiasco for the ruling parties, Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, said in early hours of Monday.
Lithuanian Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė plans to approve a new sexuality education programme which has drawn criticism from NGOs for its conservatism and focus on abstinence.
Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė is meeting on Tuesday with representatives of the Lithuanian community in Kaliningrad to discuss the possibility of opening a Lithuanian school in the Russian exclave. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
An allegedly leaked copy of a sexual education project being prepared by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science has revealed a program which seems to rely primarily on abstinence.
Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė said that the state would not take funds to raise teachers’ wages from the financing of non-formal education for children.
On Friday, four of five education trade unions called off their two-week strike, which had begun in an attempt to raise teachers' wages.
The teachers' trade unions involved in the nearly two-week-long strike for higher wages in Lithuania have announced that they are prepared to call off their strike as early as Friday. Audrius Jurgelevičius, the leader of the Lithuanian Education Trade Union, told LRT that he believes that the trade ...
A meeting of Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Minister of Education Audronė Pitrėnienė on Wednesday morning did not produce an agreement to set aside additional €7 million for teachers' salaries. Instead, the government has pledged to find €2 million to meet striking teachers' dema...
The Ministry of Education and Science (ŠMM) has promised to find €6 million to increase teachers' wages in response to a teachers' strike that has been going on since last week. An additional €7 million will be requested from the government.
On Tuesday, the Social Democratic party will hold a political council meeting to ascertain whether the Labour Party supports the Government's decisions regarding teachers' wages and the social model being considered by the Seimas (parliament).
Lithuania's ethics watchdog has decided not to investigate Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė who caused controversy by taking her husband on an official trip to London.
Lithuania’s Ethics Commission will decide whether to open an investigation into the controversy surrounding the Minister for Education and Science, Audronė Pitrėnienė, bringing her husband with her on an official trip to London.
There is growing controversy over Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė taking her spouse Aurelijus Pitrėnas on an official trip to the World Education Forum in London last week.
The Seimas (parliament) has adopted an amendment to the Law on Education that has made kindergarten education compulsory in Lithuania. Fifty-nine parliamentarians voted for the amendment, 9 voted against it, and 27 abstained.
A plan to merge Kaunas University of Technology and the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences was proposed in a meeting of a working group set up by Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė to optimize Lithuania's higher education resources.
Lithuania has not passed any amendments to worsen the conditions for ethnic minorities to study in their native language, Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė has said in a letter to her Polish counterpart.
On Tuesday, the new Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė was sworn in at the Seimas of Lithuania.
Audronė Pitrėnienė, chairwoman of the Seimas Committee on Education, Science and Culture, has been appointed education and science minister.
