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Dainius Pavalkis, a former Lithuanian education and science minister, has become one of the heads of Kazakh National Medical University.

Lithuania's former education minister Dainius Pavalkis has joined the team of advisers for European Commissioner Carlos Moedas whose office is in charge of research, science and innovation.

The Labour Party has suggested that current deputy parliament speaker Vydas Gedvilas be appointed to the vacant post of the education and science minister.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday signed a decree, accepting the resignation of Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis.

Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis on Thursday submitted his resignation, the government said.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he will decide on the fate of Science and Education Minister Dainius Pavalkis after scrutinizing the Labour Party's information about the minister's work.

Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis met with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday to discuss his party's calls for him to resign.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is critical of the Labour Party's decision to recall its minister Dainius Pavalkis from the Ministry of Education and Science, saying that there are other ministers delegated by the party that are doing much worse.

After his party decided to recall him from his post, Lithuania's Education Minister Dainius Pavalkis is to meet with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Wednesday to discuss his possible resignation.

Elective military education classes should be introduced in Lithuanian schools next year, the country's Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis says.

The Ministry of Education and Science has addressed higher education institutions urging to announce the lowest passing entrance scores in 2015. The necessity to establish admission threshold is provided for in the Law on Higher Education and Research.

On 23 December, the Government approved the proposal put forward by the Ministry of Education and Science to increase the salaries of the lowest earning teachers - nursery school teachers and pre-primary education teachers. Over LTL 30 million (EUR 8.7 million) was allocated for this. Their salaries...

Part of teachers in Lithuania are holding a warning strike on Thursday, expressing their dissatisfaction over pay.

After reports of students from Lithuanian schools going to paramilitary camps in Russia, Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis and officers of the army's Strategic Communication Department on Thursday met with principals of Russian-language schools.

Lithuania's Education and Science Ministry acknowledges a threat posed by possible hostile influence for students and teachers of Russian-language schools, however, have no instruments to prevent such activities, says minister Dainius Pavalkis.

Lithuanian parliamentary opposition leader Andrius Kubilius demanded on Thursday that Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis be summoned to respond to reports that senior schoolchildren from Russian-language schools are allegedly taken to paramilitary camps in Russia.

Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis has congratulated teachers, schoolchildren, parents and the whole academic community on the occasion of the New School Year.

New buses were handed over to schools at the ceremony in Independence Square in Vilnius on Thursday. Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis transferred their keys to representatives of regional schools.

Businesspeople have expressed their support to the decision made by Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis to make mathematics examination compulsory starting 2016 to those entering higher education institutions. Business representatives have also noted the need to enhance development of...

The compulsory mathematics exam is introduced to enhance logical and mathematical skills of the society and to increase the number of people who have knowledge in exact sciences, says Lithuania's Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis.