Education

Governments must urgently step up their efforts to improve their education and training policies to help more people reap the benefits of the digital transformation and to reduce the risk of automation widening inequalities and driving unemployment, according to a new OECD report.

Финская система школьного образования уже несколько лет занимает одни из первых мест в рейтингах. PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) ставит ее на 12-е место по качеству обучения математике, чтению и естественнонаучным дисциплинам, а The International Education Database – на второе.

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In the modern world, it is more crucial than ever to not only generate knowledge but also to know how to apply it, discover creative solutions and to recognise new perspectives and possibilities. Many agree that higher education should be the environment in which these characteristics are cultivated...

Lithuania's Ministry of Education and Science says it has no plans to introduce a national ban on mobile phones at schools, leaving the right for schools to decide themselves on this issue.

Lithuania must invest in the teaching profession as the nation's freedom and future depends on teachers, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.

The European Union (EU) will for now continue support to the European Humanities University (EHU), a Belarusian university operating in exile in Vilnius that has recently drawn a negative expert conclusion.

Пока одна часть недовольных положением высшего образования в Литве преподавателей объявила дни траура и проводила пикеты, другие "реформируют" высшее образование в магазинах алкогольных товаров на границе между Литвой и Латвией.

Lithuania will earmark an additional 93 million euros for introduction of staff salaries for teachers in the 2018-2019 academic year, the Education and Science Ministry said.

Lithuania has earmarked financial assistance to 70 postgraduate students from seven countries, the Education and Science Ministry said on Monday.

Lithuania slipped three places to 33rd among 63 nations in the 2017 world competitiveness ranking released by the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD).

The total number of students in Lithuania's general education and higher education schools has dropped by more than 20 percent over the past six years, Statistics Lithuania said in Monday.

Lithuanian Education and Science Minister Jurgita Petrauskienė believes that there is a good reason to discuss a proposal to solve the problem of a shortage of professionals in the regions by making it mandatory for students who study free of charge to work in a certain location for a certain period...

High-quality higher education should continue to be available in Lithuania's regions, but that does not necessarily mean keeping the existing inefficient higher education institutions intact, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday.

The number of state universities in Lithuania has to be cut to no more than five, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday.

The presidents of Lithuania and Israel on Sunday underlined the importance of preserving the heritage of Lithuanian Jews and of expanding business ties as they marked 25 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry, together with trade unions, plans to work out by March a fixed pay model for school teachers.