Ministry of Education and Science

  • Politics

Gedvilas withdraws as candidate for education minister

Seimas Deputy Speaker Vydas Gedvilas, who was proposed to the post of the science and education minister by the Labour…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian PM to ask Special Investigation Service for more details on Gedvilas report

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he plans to ask the country's Special Investigation Service (STT) for more detailed information…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian president rejects Gedvilas as candidate for education minister

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday she would not appoint Labour Party MP Vydas Gedvilas as the country's education…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Vydas Gedvilas proposed as Lithuania’s education minister

The Labour Party has suggested that current deputy parliament speaker Vydas Gedvilas be appointed to the vacant post of the…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian president dismisses minister of education

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday signed a decree, accepting the resignation of Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis. [...]

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania’s Education Minister Pavalkis steps down

Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis on Thursday submitted his resignation, the government said. [...]

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian education minister meets with PM and president to discuss rift with his party

Lithuania's Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis met with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday to…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian president: Social security minister is doing worse than education minister

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is critical of the Labour Party's decision to recall its minister Dainius Pavalkis from the Ministry…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian education minister’s fate to be decided on Wednesday

After his party decided to recall him from his post, Lithuania's Education Minister Dainius Pavalkis is to meet with Prime…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian schools to hold lesson on national security

The first lesson of national security will be held in schools across Lithuania on Friday. [...]

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania’s education minister urges universities to tighten admission requirements

The Ministry of Education and Science has addressed higher education institutions urging to announce the lowest passing entrance scores in…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania’s ruling coalition talks education and healthcare reforms

In 2015, Lithuania's ruling coalition is planning reforms in the areas of science and education as well as healthcare areas,…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian pre-primary school teachers’ salaries to grow

On 23 December, the Government approved the proposal put forward by the Ministry of Education and Science to increase the…

10 years ago
  • Economy

543 teachers in 30 schools on strike in Lithuania

The Ministry of Education and Science has announced that the current teachers' strike affects 15 municipalities. Thirty education establishments are…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian government considers establishing ethnic minority department

The Lithuanian Government's Strategic Committee will consider establishing an Ethnic Minority Department that would replace the Ethnic Minority and Emigration…

10 years ago
  • Society

Fifteen school students from eastern Ukraine come to study in Lithuania

Fifteen teenagers and their two teachers affected by unrest in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions will live and study in…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian universities take part in NAJAH exhibition in Abu Dhabi

Seven Lithuanian universities are taking part in education and training exhibition and career fair NAJAH in Abu Dhabi, the largest…

10 years ago
  • Society

Kaunas University of Technology – Lithuania’s most international school

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has attracted the largest number of international students among all Lithuanian institutions of higher education…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian teachers to hold protest action in late October

Lithuanian teachers are going to hold a protest rally outside the Ministry of Education and Science on 28 October. [...]

10 years ago
  • Society

OSCE representative in Lithuania to investigate ethnic minority situation

Veronika Kristkova, a legal expert of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) office of the high commissioner…

10 years ago