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Lithuania: Predators in the schoolyard
Sex-abuse scandals at two schools for troubled children prompt calls for the country to overhaul its foster-care system.
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Russia protests school searches in Lithuania
The Kremlin is expressing ire over recent police raids at Russian-language schools in Lithuania whose students attended a controversial post-Soviet youth camp this summer, TASS reports.
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A lesson in propaganda?
Lithuania’s Russian-language schools are under a microscope after students attend a boot camp for kids from ex-Soviet republics.
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Economist: education system is impeding Lithuania’s innovativeness
The education system oriented at academic achievements prevents Lithuania from becoming an innovative country. It does not promote innovative thinking, entrepreneurship and is impeding such traits says Senior Economist at Swedbank Laura Galdikiene, cites LETA.
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Lithuania: The incredible shrinking university degree
The allure of a university diploma gives way to the security of vocational training in the post-2008 economy.
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Special needs, common problems
Lithuania’s stuttering progress on retrofitting schools for the disabled reflects a trend across the European Union.
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In Lithuania, Sex Education Remains Taboo
KLAIPEDA. Lithuania | There was no sex in the Soviet Union – or so people liked to joke in a time when propaganda to thwart “fetid capitalism” or “Western decadence” warned […]
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In Lithuania, Too Many Teachers Chasing Too Few Pupils
VILNIUS | At 75, Algimantas Adomenas is still spry, agile, and exuberant. He has another reason to feel satisfied with his life: he still works, in a job he loves.
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