More than 10,000 applications have been made to higher education institutions in Latvia for the forthcoming academic year, a significant increase on the number last year, reported the LETA newswire.
As we reported June 27, University of Latvia space scientist will in September be presented with the prestigious Europlanet award for her work promoting the space sciences in the Baltic region.
Latvians may not have gone to the moon or sent a probe to Mars, but a Latvia-based space scientist has won a prestigious award for her work promoting planetary science and knowledge of the cosmos.
There will have to be at least 25 students per class in high schools in Riga and other large cities, and at least twelve per class in high schools in the regions, according to the Education and Science Ministry's draft regulation on the minimum and maximum student numbers per class in high school, reported the LETA newswire.
Ministers of Education and Research of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signed an agreement at a meeting in Estonia June 8 that enables automatic recognition of academic qualifications in higher education in all three countries, the Estonian government said in a release.
Two Latvian universities saw their international rankings decline while another saw its ranking included for the first time in the QS Top Universities report for 2019.
The Latvian Saeima on June 7 rejected a proposal to lower the school age in Latvia from the current seven years to six years, reported LSM's Latvian-language service.
Nearly 200 people were picketing in front of the Latvian parliament building on the morning of June 7 in support of reforming instructional content.
Plans to lower the school starting age in Latvia from 7 to 6 years of age hit a snag May 31 with a parliamentary committee reviewing proposed education reforms refusing to endorse the move.
The Vītols Fund, which provides scholarships to bright Latvian young people, has received the largest donation in its history - more than €3 million, the foundation announced.
Former MP and the board chairman of the little-known Action Party, Igors Melnikovs, has filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court about education reform aimed at switching to Latvian as the sole language of instruction at school, the Constitutional Court said May 2.
Irēna Kokina, the new rector of Daugavpils University, told Latvian Radio May 2 that in future it is important the institution attracts more students from other parts of Latvia and overseas.
The Russian State Duma on April 3 published a statement in which it voiced strong objections to new legislation in Latvia that will make Latvian the language of instruction in all state schools other than kindergartens, and called for economic sanctions as a result.
The Latvian government on April 3 upheld the amendments to the General Education Law and the Education Law which, among other things, provide for lowering the school age to six years from the current seven.
President Raimonds Vējonis on April 2 announced he had signed laws approved by Saeima that will see a gradual switch to Latvian-language teaching in schools that now use other languages for the bulk of their teaching.
Currently every tenth student in Latvia comes from abroad, according to an Education Ministry overview for the year 2017. LSM's Andris Saulītis looks at the long-term tendencies in Latvia's education exports.
March 22 saw a meeting of the Education, Culture and Sports Committee of Riga City Council approving regulatory amendments that will mean Chinese language will now be taught in one of the city's schools.
The city library in Valmiera, northern Latvia, has dug up a novel way of attracting readers back to its bookshelves - providing them with a dog.
Students should be allowed to take professional qualification exams and present graduation papers in any official EU language in which the given study program is taught, according to draft amendments proposed by the Latvian Education and Science Ministry to the Education Law, reports LETA news agency February 28.
The Latvian Saeima on February 8 sent language reform amendments for review in the Saeima Education, culture and science committee.
The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers agreed on January 23 to start gradual transition to Latvian as the sole language of instruction in schools on September 1, 2019.
The Digital Forensic Research lab (DFR), an organization that specializes in analyzing online content and flushing out so-called "Fake News" has turned its attention to a series of demonstrations in various countries concerning Latvian educational reform.
On January 22 a public initiative with more than 14,000 was sent to the Saeima asking to preserve bilingual education in Latvian schools.
Latvia has lost around 100,000 of its residents with higher education to emigration between 2000 and 2016, University of Latvia professor Mihails Hazans said in an interview with LNT commercial TV channel January 16.
The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers on January 9 approved the timetable for increasing teachers' salaries, undertaking to gradually increase the minimum monthly wage for educators, making the increase conditional on the results of optimization of the school network.
Riga City Mayor and Harmony party leader Nils Ušakovs during a working visit to Washington discussed the Latvian government’s plans for transition to education in the Latvian language for minority schools, saying that the planned reform poses serious risks to Latvia’s internal stability, Harmony reported.
Several hundred demonstrators performed a lap of Riga's Old Town December 14 protesting against proposed educational reforms that would make Latvian language compulsory for the majority of instruction in the classroom.
Starting September 1, 2019 the Riga municipality will offer extra lessons for Riga minority language students, held in their native language, said Riga mayor Nils Ušakovs (Harmony) appearing on LTV on November 30.
Alumni of one of Latvia's top educational establishments are gathering in Riga for their annual alumni day, which will be streamed live on the internet November 3.
Up to 400 people gathered outside the Education Ministry in central Riga October 23 to protest against plans to introduce the majority of education in the Latvian language at schools currently teaching in Russian.