At the beginning of this year, the capital’s minority schools received controversial guidelines from the local government. They were to increase the number of Lithuanian lessons by 2 hours per

Yesterday, the National Agency of Education published the results of the main session of the state matura exam. The headteachers of Polish institutions are delighted to see students receiving more

On Wednesday, the mayor of the Vilnius region, Robert Duchniewicz, issued a letter to the speaker of the Parliament Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen and parliamentary groups with a request to introduce amendments

Members of the Sejm, representing the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance (EAPL-CFA), propose to lower the bar for the number of students in schools of national minorities.

In the past four years the results of national minority schools have improved, according to an analysys carried out by the National Education Agency. ‘Over four years, the achievements of

Ilona Lewandowska talks with Krystyna Dzierżyńska, a vice-president of the Association of Polish Schools in Lithuania “Macierz Szkolna,” about the high school diploma in Polish and the chances for the

Leave the school as it is now. It cannot be reorganized or closed – this is the firm position of the community of Andrzej Stelmachowski Elementary School in Senieji Trakai,

Education department is preparing another reform concerning chain of schools in Lithuania. One of its primary goals is close-down of merged classes. Changes also apply to Polish schools in Lithuania.

Even though this year the Lithuanian language test results for 10th– grade pupils are higher than last year, in case of both Lithuanian and national minorities’ schools, in the latter case,

“The result of the work of the expert group is adapted to the Lithuanian reality textbook for educating Polish children in Lithuania”, said Jadwiga Mariola Szczypiń, director of the Education