Indriksone prioritizes sorting out higher education exports and revising reform of school curriculum

RIGA - As Latvia's new Minister of Education and Science, Ilze Indriksone (National Alliance) will prioritize sorting out higher education exports, ensuring access to education in various security contexts, and reviewing the School 2030 curriculum reform.

As the minister's adviser Tomass Tomasevskis old LETA, Indriksone has submitted a list of prioritized tasks and deliverables to Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs (United List).

According to Indriksone, the prioritized issues will have an impact on Latvia's human capital development, competitiveness and security in the coming years. The minister pointed to the need to strengthen cooperation between the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministries of Economics and Welfare to ensure that skills needed for the labor market are taught to young people and adults.

In the field of higher education, Indriksone intends to introduce stricter requirements for the admission of international students, to make universities responsible for the students they invite, and to set a minimum Latvian language requirement at A2 level for foreign nationals studying in Latvia for more than two years.

To ensure access to education, the minister plans to improve regulation for family, distance, and combined learning, as well as to introduce uniform requirements for the quality of education.

Indriksone also plans to review the curriculum reform School 2030, improve the evaluation of students' academic achievements, and develop a roadmap for the introduction of the subject Family Health Education.