News Latvia » Education: Latvia’s education responses to the influx of Ukrainian students
The government is making plans to accommodate 30,000 refugees. Latvia provides education programmes in seven minority languages and diverse opportunities of digital learning. It is now accommodating ...
News Latvia » Education: Latvian Minister of Education Issues Ordinance for Promotion of Lettish Culture in Minority Schools:
The Minister of Education, M. Keninsch, has issued a new order relating to the minority secondary and professional schools, which provides: (1) That the secondary and professional schools of the ...
News Latvia » Education: Latvian education reforms set to spark start-of-term walkout
The reform aims to improve knowledge of the Latvian language among mostly Russian-speaking minorities, so as to advance their integration. As of September more classes will be taught in Latvian in the ...
News Latvia » Education: Latvia leverages German partnership to forge stronger EU education bonds
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 2. On Tuesday, July 1, Latvia’s Minister of Education and Science, Dace Melbārde, met with German Ambassador to Latvia, H.E. Gudrun Masloch, to discuss strengthening bilateral ...
News Latvia » Education: Latvian teachers' protests bear fruit, but new unpopular change still ahead
In Latvia, kindergarten teachers have a 40-hour workweek, and thus are now earning a minimum of €1,526 a month. All parties still remember the education workers' protest in Riga's Dome Square last ...
News Latvia » Education: World Bank Proposes a New Higher Education Financing Model for Latvia
RIGA, September 24, 2014 —The World Bank presented its Higher Education Financing in Latvia Final Report today at a conference organized by the Ministry of Education and Science in Latvia and the ...
News Latvia » Education: Latvian schools switch to distance learning during COVID-19 lockdown, call for devices
RIGA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- All schools in Latvia have suspended face-to-face classes and switched to distance learning amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, but not all students in the Baltic country have ...
News Latvia » Education: An institutional capacity assessment of Latvia's education system
Latvia’s Education Development Guidelines 2021-2027 set out the country’s vision for a high-quality and inclusive education and training system for all its citizens that supports sustainable national ...
News Latvia » Education: Latvian education minister stays in office despite controversy over youth festival
Latvian Education and Science Minister Marite Seile said she would stay in office despite the controversy she caused last weekend by cancelling the traditional parade of the School Youth Song and ...
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