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Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has attracted the largest number of international students among all Lithuanian institutions of higher education as 200 new international students enrolled in KTU this year. The university has 460 foreign students now, KTU said in a statement.
Lithuanian teachers are going to hold a protest rally outside the Ministry of Education and Science on 28 October.
Veronika Kristkova, a legal expert of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) office of the high commissioner for national minorities, is visiting Lithuania to collect information for a report on the situation of ethnic minorities in the country.
Schoolchildren who have returned from military camps in Russia are being monitored by security officers in Lithuania, Gediminas Grina, head of the State Security Department, said on Monday.
Lithuania's Education and Science Ministry acknowledges a threat posed by possible hostile influence for students and teachers of Russian-language schools, however, have no instruments to prevent such activities, says minister Dainius Pavalkis.
Lithuania's Ministry of Education and Science plans to introduce mandatory pre-school education for six-year-olds as of September 2015, with 5 million litas (EUR 1.45m) earmarked for the purpose in next year's budget proposal.
After a dispute between the joint representation of Lithuania's education trade unions and the Ministry of Education and Science turned to a deadlock, there is still another chance to find a peaceful solution. Minister of Education Dainius Pavalkis agreed to settle the disagreement through a concili...
New buses were handed over to schools at the ceremony in Independence Square in Vilnius on Thursday. Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis transferred their keys to representatives of regional schools.
28,000 first-graders will start schooling this September in Lithuania, about 1,000 more than last year, although the overall number of schoolchildren will go down, according to figures from the country's Ministry of Education and Science.
The Ministry of Education and Science informs that 15 students from Punsk March 11th Lyceum, who submitted their applications to enter Lithuanian universities, were accepted. 14 students will receive government's funding, while one will have to pay for tuition.
Businesspeople have expressed their support to the decision made by Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis to make mathematics examination compulsory starting 2016 to those entering higher education institutions. Business representatives have also noted the need to enhance development of...
The compulsory mathematics exam is introduced to enhance logical and mathematical skills of the society and to increase the number of people who have knowledge in exact sciences, says Lithuania's Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis.
There are plans to revive the Institute of Pedagogy in Lithuania to ensure coordination of secondary education programmes and proper distribution of workload for students, the country's Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis says.
Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis has signed a decree on making the math exam compulsory as of 2016 for secondary school graduates in Lithuania who wish to study in state-funded spots at the country's public colleges and universities.
