Education

The Lithuanian government has greenlit using money from European Union structural funds to finance informal learning programmes in Lithuanian schools.

School teachers in Lithuania and Latvia are the least earning educators in Europe, according to an updated European Commission report.

After Thursday's rally of ethnic minority schools, a dispute has broken out between the protestors and the Vilnius municipality authorities over the aims of the rally – whether it was to improve the status of minority schools or achieve political objectives in light of upcoming elections.

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.

Representatives of ethnic minority schools are staging a rally outside the Municipality of Vilnius on Thursday in protest of what organizers say is assault on ethnic minority education.

The European Humanities University (EHU), a Vilnius-based Belarusian school in exile, is holding a donors' conference on Thursday to discuss the university's finances and future role.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius claims that the teachers' trade unions on strike in Lithuania could have been influenced or inspired by Russia has attracted considerable attention. When describing how some members of the teachers' trade unions attended certain conferences in Russia, the prime mi...

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...

A Lithuanian school in Rokiškis, Juozas Tūbelis Pro-gymnasium, is to start teaching computer programming to its pupils in the first grade, in what may be a first in Lithuania.

The standing of science was irreparably damaged during Lithuania's shock transition to the free market in the 1990s as people saw they could make fortunes in trade rather than pursuing education and scientific research, says Valdemaras Razumas, president of the Lithuanian Science Academy.

Crisis in primary school education that reaches across Lithuania has been ignored for years

The European Commission has criticised Lithuania’s lack of progress on key recommendations it made for reforming the country’s pension, tax and education systems.

Former Culture and Education Minister Darius Kuolys said that the teacher’s unions had decided to strike at the right time with elections on the horizon and that they should be thanked for putting education at the centre of the national political agenda.

Lietuvių kurta edukacinė interaktyvi knyga vaikams „Trybie Journey“ gavo 4 žvaigždučių įvertinimą iš D.Britanijos edukacinės programos „Educational App Store“ specialistų.

Families that want their children to attend Lithuanian-language kindergartens in Vilnius District, a predominantly Polish-speaking region, are faced with a very difficult task and are often forced to opt for a Polish-language institution, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Friday.

Child rights ombudswoman Edita Žiobienė says that the ongoing teachers' strike could have negative effects on their students' performance.

Teachers' unions and the government should find an agreement by means of a dialogue and not by demonstrating a "force position", Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.

Lithuanian Teacher‘s Unions will continue their strike action on Thursday but negotiations with the Government may not restart until Monday.

Government negotiators have failed to convince teachers' unions to call off a strike on Wednesday as talks about higher pay continues.