Education

In general educational reform after the half-century of Soviet suppression is underway, but full implementation will take many years and extensive financing, presently unavailable to the state budget.

And yet, in accordance with multiculturalism ineducation, schools for ethnic minorities in Latvia began to open in re-established Latvia. After the Language Law was adopted in Latvia, several schools for national groups were opened, including Polish, Estonian, Lithuanian and Jewish schools, and Sunday schools for some 20 different ethnic groups where children and adults learn Livonian, Polish, Belarussian, Azerbaijan, Tatar, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, German, Georgian, Uzbek, Jewish, Armenian and Japanese language and culture. These schools with their close cooperation with their ethnic homelands, religious communities and national communities in third countries, along with increasing numbers of general schools where the language of instruction is now Latvian, play a significant role in social integration and cultural development in Latvia.

Young generation of Latvia.

Apart from education at primary and secondary levels, Latvia can boast several institutions of higher and very specialized education, including the University of Latvia, Latvia's Academy of Agriculture, the Latvian Academy of Art, Riga Technical University, and the Latvian Academy of Medicine. Various western and private foundations have sought to help fill the current financial gaps in funding available for education, supporting a number of educational facilities and programmes - for example, the Stockholm School of Economics, which opened in 1994.