Birutė Pranevičienė

Challenges To The Implementation Of Institutional Reform In The Lithuanian General Education System

Abstract The educational system of Lithuania has undergone transformation conditioned by the radical change of the political situation in the region after the restoration of independence on March 11, 1990. The new educational system was gradually developed, changing and denying the former Soviet educational framework. The main goal of the new educational system is to provide education compatible with the newly applicable international standards and create an effective network of schools. The article aims to present an overview of the reform of the institutional system of general education of Lithuania that began in 1988 and was to be completed in September 2015; however, the completion of the reform was recently postponed until September 2017. The article also reviews key challenges to the reform implementation and discusses the compatibility of the reform with societal expectations and standards of international educational law.

General Frameworks of Lithuanian Law

This section of the book is devoted to the presentation of a basic temporal (diachronic) and systematic (synchronic) overview of the legal system of Lithuania. Two dimensions are covered from the diachronic perspective. The first one is a retrospective or historical overview of the historical development of Lithuanian law from the medieval period, covering the monumental Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, to the major law-related events of contemporary Lithuania. The second diachronic perspective is a prospective overview in which the perspectives of the future development of Lithuanian law in the major legal fields (such as constitutional, labor, civil, procedural, and so forth) are presented and analyzed.