• Reforms in the Ministry of Education and Science

Vesti Segodnya reports on planned reforms in the Ministry of Education and Science. Six agencies will be reformed and four of those agencies will be liquidated. The newspaper notes that one of the agencies to be liquidated is the State Agency for Quality Assessment of General Education, which also oversaw the transition to teaching mainly in Latvian in schools implementing minority education programmes. In a conversation one year ago, the Head of the Agency Ms. Evija Papule stated she could not share any data that would prove the change of language of instruction in these schools did not harm education quality