Estonian education and science
Girls as young as fifth graders are getting more and more into the tech and robotics industry in Estonia, shifting the stereotypes according to which this field of study is only meant for boys and men. A small school in Voore (part I) The sun brightens up the day, The moon shines in the night, […]
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Stanford University will hold a major Baltic conference in 2018 which will bring together scholars interested in Baltic studies from all over the world and foster collaboration between Baltic and Stanford researchers. The conference, hosted by the Stanford University Libraries, that has one of the largest Baltic collections in the United States, will celebrate two
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If the climate continues to change in a similar manner, climate models predict that by the end of this century, Estonia will have in the worst case a climate similar to northern Scotland, writes Mait Sepp. Changes in climate are something you can literally put your hands on in Estonia. Just take a walk in
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For the first time, the Estonian Academy of Arts is among the world’s top 200 art and design universities. The only public university in Estonia offering higher education in the fine arts, design, architecture, media, visual studies, art culture, cultural heritage and conservation is placed at the 151-200 ranking among the world’s top 200 art
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Researchers of the University of Tartu and Icosagen Cell Factory have introduced the new cellular monitoring system for evaluating the growth of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and the effect of drugs; the new drug screening system could considerably speed up the development of a new HPV drug. Being the most common sexually transmitted infection globally,
The Estonian Business School (EBS) and Volkswagen Financial Services have signed an agreement that provides the students of EBS and its partner university, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with an opportunity to draw up a project for the development of Volkswagen business activities in the Chinese market. The project involves twelve EBS and six Hong Kong
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According to the PISA tests, the results of Estonian 15-year-olds are the best in Europe and among the strongest in the entire world. But what is the recipe for this success and what could be improved upon? It is rather difficult to objectively measure how good the Estonian education system is, but one of the
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According to the census, there are 9,614 “other” Finno-Ugric people living in Estonia: Erzyas, Mokshas, Udmurts, Komis, Karelians, Maris, Hungarians, Finns, Ingrians and many others. Overall, there are around 25 million Finno-Ugrians in the world. Still, the number of those who speak Finno-Ugric languages keeps declining, says doctor Natalia Abrosimova of the Tallinn University School
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Margaret Lyngdoh, originally from the Khasi tribe in India, now works as a junior research fellow in folkloristics at the University of Tartu – and studies the supernatural traditions and rituals of her community. This article is published in collaboration with Research in Estonia and Study in Estonia. The Khasis are one of the multiple ethnic communities in
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Dr Isabelle Frochot, a visiting associate professor of tourism marketing at the University of Tartu Pärnu College, says that she would recommend Estonia as a place to study without hesitation. In Estonia, when one talks about a “university town”, one usually means Tartu, the home of the largest and oldest university in the country. And
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