The Higgs boson has been nicknamed the God particle as it has been so difficult to spot. The particle, which helps to explain how the universe got its mass, was first predicted in 1964 but it wasn't until this year that the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced it had been able to detect it. On 27 November two physicists who had been key in developing the theory behind the boson - professors Peter Higgs from the UK and François Englert from Belgium - visited the EP.

Baltic Sea Science Congress "New Horizons for Baltic Sea Science" will take place on 26-30 August, 2013 in Klaipėda, Lithuania informes http://corpi.ku.lt.

The International Conference „European Higher Education in the World" will be held on the 5-6th September in Vilnius, Lithuania. It will be one of the biggest events dedicated to Higher Education questions during the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2013.

On Friday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius met with Eugenijus Jesinas and Audrius Jurgelevicius, the heads of education trade unions to discuss the issues of education funding, informs The Baltic Course.

This year's national exam session is distinguished from others because of the doubled numbers of the people who got full marks, said National Examination Centre. This year's session was different from others in two ways - the common Lithuanian language and literature exam was conducted for both native speakers and foreign language learners as well as the criteria based assessment.

High school graduates who will start university are aiming for medicine - the unprecedented popularity is reported. The entrance competition is likely to be extremely competitive.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday 4 of July opened an international TEPSA conference dedicated to Lithuania's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.