Education

If 2015 was an eventful year for Kaunas as the city underwent an infrastructure revamp, it also raised issues about the political currents shaping the city.

The Lithuanian parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday, saying the country will continue to provide opportunities for ethnic minority communities to receive education in their native languages.

A week after Gediminas Grina, the former chief of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) compared the country’s ethnic minority schools to “education ghettos” and called for their removal, Klaipeda’s Russian school teachers are still upset about his comments.

The Lithuanian government has designated additional 10 million euro to satisfy demands of the teachers trade union. However, teachers still have not given up a plan to hold a strike in around 16 percent or 300 out of the country's 2,000 schools on December 8.

The results of Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016 were announced on 2 December. Vilnius University (VU) made its début in the ranking with the 116th spot, making into the list of top 200 higher education institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and 30 other...

Lithuanian teachers will hold a strike on 10 December, two days later than previously planned due to a requirement to warn about a strike seven days in advance.

Bullying remains a pandemic problem in Lithuanian schools and can sometimes lead to tragic consequence, including suicide. The Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson's Office has conducted a survey among school students, a fifth of whom said they were bullied for one reason or another.

A plan to merge Kaunas University of Technology and the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences was proposed in a meeting of a working group set up by Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė to optimize Lithuania's higher education resources.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed law amendments, requiring students to pass at least one national-level graduation exam in order to be accepted into a college or university.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to meet representatives of the academic community, employers and students to discuss how to increase the quality of higher education.

Journalists and education experts criticise the trends in Lithuania‘s institutions of higher education, which in turn criticise journalists and experts who talk about the bad aspects only, but never see the good ones.

QS World University Rankings has published a list of the best universities in the region of Emerging Europe and Central Asia. Vilnius University (VU) jumped up by 13 ranking positions and made it to the top 20, ranking in the 19th place, the university reports.

Lithuania is preparing to establish a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) centre of excellence in Klaipėda. Within a month, the heads of ministries will be presented a letter of intent signed with social partners and an activity plan for an LNG cluster.

Fifteen Ukrainian children from families that have been affected by ongoing military action in eastern Ukraine are to arrive in Lithuania by the end of the year, BNS reports.

В рейтинг лучших университетов мира по версии британского издания THE в этом году вошли 13 российских вузов. В прошлом году в рейтинге были лишь два российских высших учебных заведения.

Lithuania has not passed any amendments to worsen the conditions for ethnic minorities to study in their native language, Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė has said in a letter to her Polish counterpart.

Every university of Lithuania intends to enrol between several and a few dozen refugees, financing their tuition.

Van Williams, CIO, chief of product engineering and manager of Virtustream development centre in Lithuania, says that the Baltic countries should be more active in attracting global funding. Also, he is convinced that the main asset of any business are innovative professionals, discovered and foster...

Close cooperation with business is among the top priorities in the strategies of most European universities, and the achievements of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in this field are remarkable, says Heike Fischbach, Policy Officer for Education and Culture at European Commission’s General Dir...

In the latest world university ranking 2015/2016, published by QS World University Rankings, Vilnius University (VU) improved its position to 501-550 from the 551-600 position previously, the university reports.