Education

Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis supports the re-introduction of military training at schools, an idea raised by Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU).

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.

A general reserve of national defence should be prepared in Lithuania's education institutions, namely, schools and universities, says the ruling Peasant and Green Union's leader Ramūnas Karbauskis who heads the parliamentary Culture Committee.

Lithuania's new government must streamline the network of universities and other higher education institutions amid a rapid decrease in student numbers, an advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) is planning conservative changes in the field of family policy, despite opposition from its coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Friday.

One of the key priorities for “Peasant” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis and his team is culture. This is why he is prepared to head the Seimas Culture Committee, which will be formed by splitting the current Education, Science and Culture Committee. The Peasant Greens leader also intends to move the Agric...

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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.

The QS World University Rankings 2016–2017 marks an important milestone for Lithuanian academics with Vilnius University (VU) entering the list of the 500 most prominent universities in the world.

More than 30,000 first-graders are beginning school in Lithuania in the new academic year on September 1, several hundred more than last year.

Emigration has been a perennial headache for the Lithuanian government and businesses for more than a decade now. Departures of young and educated people are a particular drain on the country's resources.

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.

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.