In the public sphere, it is often said that Lithuanian pupil outcomes are getting worse, and that challenges are emerging not only in training future teachers, but also in encouraging secondary school graduates to study pedagogy. How should these problems be addressed, and what action needs to be taken? Today, we talk about it with the director of Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy (VU ŠA) Prof Renata Bilbokaitė.

Admissions to study at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) are now open. If you are looking for a top-quality education in an open-minded, innovation-driven community without a hefty price tag, KTU is the right choice for you. Check the available programmes and apply today. Choose a university, which turns 100 in 2022, the same year when Kaunas becomes a European Capital of Culture.

Being a partner in the EODOPEN project, Vilnius University (VU) Library, with the approval of the authors, has been digitising books written by the university scholars and published by VU. The project has united 15 libraries of Europe that aims at digitising and opening up 15 thousand documents and literary works from the 20th and 21st century. One of the authors who support the idea of the project and make their scholarly works accessible for the public is dr. Birutė Railienė, a member of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Science staff. Vilnius University Press published her monography "Andrzej Śniadecki". Through the EODOPEN project, it is now freely available on VU Library Digital Collections.

On February 1, Vilnius University (VU) will be announcing the beginning of public international competitions for vacant academic positions. As every year, the university is currently looking for 350 lecturers and researchers of various fields. Documents must be submitted during the period of one month, until March 1.

On February 1, Vilnius University (VU) is going to take a historic step by becoming one of the first large organizations in Lithuania that are set to meet 100% of their electricity needs from renewable sources. VU will be supplied with green electricity by Imlitex.

Residents of the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University (VU MF), regardless of their field of residency studies, have recently been working mainly with patients who have contracted COVID-19. Residents of various specialisations are facing challenges during this difficult period of the pandemic, when alarming numbers of new cases of infection and victims are observed with great anxiety on a daily basis. Rūta Jakimavičiūtė from Vilnius, who is a second-year student at the VU MF chemotherapy oncology residency programme, agreed to tell us about her experiences.

The second wave of COVID-19 infection is more dangerous than the first, however, now we know more about the virus. In the spring of 2020, to assess the coronavirus situation in Lithuania, researchers of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University (VU) together with medical specialists started providing the Government with short-term and long-term prognoses of spread of the epidemic and carried out research.

A team of PhD students at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Professor Kazimieras Baršauskas Ultrasound Research Institute has won the international NDT student challenge.

41 universities from 22 countries and the companies providing traineeship will introduce their opportunities in the international GO Abroad Fair 2021, which Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is organizing for the eighth time. Also, the participants of the exchange from previous years will share their good practices and answer the questions. The Fair will take place online on February 3-4.

With the pandemic disrupting our learning, jobs, and health, it’s no surprise many of us are feeling blue this January. Although some students are happy with the new learning situation and the time they save on the commute, anxiety, sensitivity, emotional difficulties and inability to relax is observed more often under the quarantine conditions. Even without a pandemic, this time of year is usually challenging for students. The following tips will not make you immune to being homesick or studies-related worries, but there are ways to ease the pressure.