Vytautas Magnus University

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Summer courses at Vytautas Magnus University attended by students from over 30 countries

For the second time in a row, Baltic Summer University (BSU), a project organized by Vytautas Magnus University, has drawn…

6 years ago
  • European Union
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Irish president to receive honorary doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University

Irish President Michael D. Higgins will visit Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas on Wednesday and will receive an honorary doctorate…

6 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian government okays university network reorganization plan

The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday a university network reorganization plan worked out by the Education and Science Ministry and…

7 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian ministry unveils university network reorganization plan

The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry has unveiled a university network reorganization plan that calls for merging all universities in…

7 years ago
  • Culture

Original version of Lithuania’s 1918 Independence Act found in Berlin

The long-sought original document of the Lithuanian Independence Act signed on February 16 1918 was discovered in Germany's diplomatic archives…

7 years ago
  • Society

Vytautas Magnus Uni, Euroleague establish joint masters program of studies

Euroleague and Lithuania's Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) on Thursday announced plans to establish a joint program of master's studies –…

7 years ago
  • Society

Vytautas Magnus, Education Sciences universities plan merger by 2018

Representatives of the Vytautas Magnus University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences have signed an integration agreement, which envisages…

8 years ago
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University of Education and Vytautas Magnus Uni expect to merge by 2018

Lithuania's Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) and the Lithuanian University of Education Sciences (LEU) expect to merge by the end of…

8 years ago
  • Society

University index published in Lithuania

Computer engineering is best taught at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), finances at the ISM University of Management and…

8 years ago
  • Society

Vilnius University included among world’s top 500

The QS World University Rankings 2016–2017 marks an important milestone for Lithuanian academics with Vilnius University (VU) entering the list…

8 years ago
  • Opinion
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‘1990s was a time of great joy and great trauma’

Mimicking and copying Western Europe was one of the main strategies that Lithuanians used to cope with the socio-political and…

8 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian higher education system needs drastic reforms, say academics

Many believe Lithuania has too many universities, and some are beginning to address this problem by downsizing or merging.To read…

8 years ago
  • Society

University of Education and Vytautas Magnus University to merge

Vilnius-based Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Kaunas-based Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) are planning to merge into one higher education…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE

What will long term impact of Masiulis-gate be?

Most of the media coverage of the investigation into and controversy surrounding the allegations against Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis…

8 years ago
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Lithuanians oppose unskilled migrants despite labour shortages

There is a growing recognition that immigration will be needed to solve skill shortages in the Lithuanian labour market, but…

8 years ago
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  • Opinion

The shrinking city: Kaunas faces up to depopulation

Kaunas, Lithuania's second city, is facing serious challenges as its population shrinks and young families move to the suburbs. [...]

8 years ago
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  • Opinion

‘There is no institution like the Vatican in Islam that can excommunicate extremist Muslims’

There were some 13 million Muslims living in Europe several years ago, according to Pew Research Center, and several more…

8 years ago
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Lithuania needs to be ‘EU stakeholder’ not just draw down funding, Commissioner says

After sixteen years in the European Union, Lithuania has to decide what it is: a donor, a user of EU…

8 years ago
  • Society

Forum of Russian opposition figures opening in Trakai

Trakai, a town in southern Lithuania, is hosting a forum of several dozen Russian intellectuals, journalists, public figures and politicians…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania in “medium-sized” political crisis but coalition likely to remain

Lithuania is currently undergoing a “medium-sized” political crisis, according to Lithuanian political scientists and analysts, but one that should not…

9 years ago