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The state has funded studies of more than 1,000 Ukrainians who arrived in Lithuania after fleeing the war in their country, says the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. The state support for Ukrainian students in Lithuania’s state higher education institutions totalled EUR 4.6 million.
Latvia’s parliamentary commission has decided not to lower the age limit for Russian citizens who have to pass the Latvian language exam in order to keep their residence permit, delfi.lv reports.
One of the most important tasks for hackathon organizers was to identify the most pressing issues, and their list was expanding day by day.
Lithuania's government on Wednesday allowed a Vilnius-based private British school to work under the English national education program.
Changes to the Education and Studies Law that came into power on the last day of summer are to have a large impact on Lithuania's higher education system. Changes are expected in the way education is financed, how students are rotated and their achievements marked.
Thirty-five new school buses will be distributed among 25 Lithuanian municipalities before the start of the new academic year.
Several dozen people, rallied by non-governmental organizations, held a protest action outside the Ministry of Education and Science. They are critical of the new sexual education programme that the ministry is to approve on Wednesday, saying it is too conservative and fails to meet the needs of sch...
Dropping admissions to Lithuania's universities and colleges - 82 study programmes failed to attract any students - have once again put focus on the chronic ills of the country's education system.
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.
Lithuania's Ministry of Education is planning to set up ten so-called STEAM centres in order to boost school students' interest in natural sciences, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
The Lithuanian government has greenlit using money from European Union structural funds to finance informal learning programmes in Lithuanian schools.
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.
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.
Government negotiators have failed to convince teachers' unions to call off a strike on Wednesday as talks about higher pay continues.
Lithuania's ruling parties have agreed on a three-year plan for incrementally raising teachers' wages as unions continue to strike.
As teachers across Lithuania continue a strike, demanding higher wages, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius claims trade unions behind the strike are "influenced by Russia".
