The Baltic Assembly, positively
evaluating the “Agreement on Cooperation in the Sphere of Education” signed in
1990 by the Ministries of Culture and Education of the Republic of Estonia, Republic
of Latvia and Republic of Lithuania, as well as the Protocol signed in April,
1994 and appended to the Agreement, and approving of the basic provisions of the
above documents, emphasises the following priority spheres
of cooperation and recommends to the Baltic Council of Ministers to:
1) coordinate positions
and priorities in international fora and projects;
2) support forms of
education which would contribute to the development of both the national and
the Baltic identity in the consciousness of Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian
youth;
3) establish a procedure
for recognising, on a reciprocal basis, academic
degrees and education diplomas;
4)coordinate issues related
to the publishing and procurement of textbooks for ethnic minorities and the
production
of teaching aids;
5) coordinate reforms in the educational curriculum
of basic subjects including foreign languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer sciences;
6) ensure that the culture, history and geography
of the neighbouring
7) promote cooperation between
education administrators, school principals and representatives of Associations
of teaching subjects; and
8) exchange information
about the legal acts regulating the educational activities and their
implementation.