education reform

A working group set up by the Lithuanian prime minister to work out a plan for streamlining the network of scientific and educational institutions will represent the interests of the state, rather than those of individual universities, Education and Science Minister Jurgita Petrauskienė said on Mond...

The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry has received proposals from interested institutions on how to optimize of the network of universities.

Children in Lithuania should attend school from the age of six so that they graduate before they turn 19 or 20, Eugenijus Jovaiša, head of the Seimas Committee on Education and Science, said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's higher education network needs restructuring is needed not only to ensure better quality but also in response to demographic numbers, as the number of university student will be on the downward scale up until 2025, says Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Jurgita Petrauskienė.

Representatives of the Vytautas Magnus University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences have signed an integration agreement, which envisages merger by 2018.

When initiating reform of higher education in Lithuania, persons involved should speak about the quality, not the number of universities, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said.

Lithuania cannot support 14 strong and competitive universities, therefore, the network will be subjected to change, and the plan will be worked out along with the plan for the implementation of the government's program, says the country's new Education and Science Minister Jurgita Petrauskienė.

Danske Bank's chief economist for the Baltic countries believes that Lithuania's incoming government should give priority to reforming the country's education system in order to improve the situation in the labour market and help ensure sustainable economic growth, but he warns that possible differe...

Lithuania's new administration will search for ways of keeping the half-empty schools in rural areas open, the ruling Peasant and Green Union's candidate for prime minister Saulius Skvernelis said on 17 November.

Noting that university mergers are inevitable in Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she will recommend that the new government learn from Finland's successful higher education reform experience.