Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė encouraged graduating seniors to embrace challenges at the School of Foreign Service (SFS) commencement ceremony Saturday afternoon, writes Eitan Sayag of Georgetown University’s newspaper The Hoya. Grybauskaitė, who was an economics fellow at the SFS from 1990 to 1992, was elected …
BNS Vilnius University continues topping the list of Lithuanian universities, published by magazine ‘Veidas’ for the 16th time. Kaunas University of Technology came in second this year, rising from the fourth place last year, and Vytautas Magnus University dropped one notch to the third place. …
BNS During the upcoming presidency of the EU Council, during discussions on youth policies, Lithuania intends to stress the need to integrate young people, who do not work or study, into public activities, Lithuanian Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė said. Last week, …
President Dalia Grybauskaitė participated in the end of school year event at the Kristijonas Donelaitis Lithuanian School and presented students with school graduation certificates, the Press Service of the President informed. The President wished the children to cherish the Lithuanian culture, not to forget their …
BNS The results of an exam on Europe have been announced in Lithuania on Friday. They showed that schoolchildren scored better than their teachers. Skirmantas Knieza of Julius Janonis Gymnasium in Šiauliai came in first among schoolchildren who took part in the final stage of …
BNS Two Lithuanian schools will be closed in Punsk Gmina, an administrative district in north-eastern Poland, due to a lack of funds, local authorities decided on Friday. As of September, the schools of Navinykai and Pristavonys will be closed, and only the Lithuanian school in …
BNS Digital learning will be one of the priorities of the upcoming Lithuanian EU presidency, the country’s Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis states. This week, the minister presented presidency priorities at a meeting of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council in Brussels. …
Representatives of Lithuanian Business Confederation (LVK) urge school leavers to consider seriously the choices of further studies, the Baltic Course reports with reference to the news agency ELTA. They claim that professionals of technical sciences have much better prospects in today’s job market. Recently, several …
BNS The Council of the Punsk municipality, Poland, on Friday intends to revisit the issue of the three Lithuanian-language schools facing closure. Dainius Numgaudis, chancellor of the Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry, said on Wednesday that one of the Lithuanian schools in Punsk could be …
English has an influence on not only Lithuanian, but on other European languages as well, claimed the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language’s (VLKK) chairman Daiva Vaišnienė, informed www.delfi.lt. “It (The Lithuanian language) encounters the same dangers as other European languages. A study was recently …
BNS Lithuania’s Education and Science Ministry will urge countries with large Lithuanian communities to follow the example of Ireland to allow graduates choose to take the Lithuanian-language examination. “Ireland is so far the only country outside Lithuania offering the Lithuanian-language examination as an option in …
BNS – A rally was held in Vilnius on Sunday afternoon to protest against demands by the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL), a member of the ruling coalition, to allow bilingual spelling of location names and non-Lithuanian letters in personal names in documents, …
BNS A survey initiated by the publishing group Alma Littera has shown that four out of 10 adults and 24 percent of children do not read books at all in Lithuania. “The number of non-readers is pretty high,” Danguole Viliūnienė, the director of Alma Littera, …
The Lithuania Tribune presents the article written by a BBC correspondent Lucy Ash about the history of Belarus’ political opposition and the present of the European Humanities University (EHU) which operates in exile in Vilnius. The country of Belarus, between Russia and Poland, has …
According to the rankings at the top of the chart of the best high school in the country in 2013 is Vilnius Lyceum, at the second place – Kaunas University of Technology Gymnasium. In the third place of the ranking chart presented by the magazine …
B NS There should be no privileges to those taking the state Lithuanian-language exam, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. “The president brings the minister’s attention to the fact that different examination conditions are not favourable not only to Lithuanians, but also to ethnic …
BNS The English language is rapidly gaining popularity in Lithuania, with the percentage of people speaking English having risen to 30 percent from 17 percent over a decade, figures show. Based on the 2011 census data, 72 percent of people, aged 15-29, said they spoke …
BNS Lithuania’s Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis is disappointed with the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania’s decision not to hear the issue of a facilitated Lithuanian-language exam for ethnic minority schools quickly but to adjourn the ruling until the middle of July when …
In the annual rating of Lithuanian universities, published by the weekly ‘Veidas’, Vilnius University is in the lead and Vytautas Magnum University is in the second position. The third place is occupied by Mykolas Romeris University, Kaunas University of Technology is in the forth place, …
BNS The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania will rule on the facilitation of the Lithuanian language exam for ethnic minority schools by the middle of July, after the graduation examination session. The court on Friday rejected a request to hear the case quickly, saying that …
