The most important problems of Lithuania

 "The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated some of the old challenges of increasing gender and income inequality and relative poverty (and before the highest in Europe), the continuing weakness in the quality of education and the associated unfavorable innovation environment. Healthy life expectancy has increased slightly but remains 16 years shorter. In terms of the quality of education and the global innovation index, Lithuania last year ranked last among the Baltic and Nordic countries. 

According to the OECD survey of students' abilities, Lithuanians remain the last among the Baltic and Nordic countries, and it is most worrying that even every fourth student does not reach the minimum level of abilities. This problem is most common in small schools that have joint classes but do not have adequate teaching infrastructure, environment and culture. Last year’s results, when almost one in three students did not pass the state math exam, many had a cold shower, which is likely to be repeated this year as well. ”