Education Ministry Wants to Assess the Work of the Latvian Academy of Sciences

Latvia's Ministry of Education and Science wants to assess what the Latvian Academy of Sciences should be like in the future, and it plans to do so through a special commission. The plan was reported by the Russian-language service of LSM, the Latvian public broadcaster.

The commission is expected to include scientists, representatives of universities, and representatives of the Saeima (Latvia's parliament), the government and other institutions. The ministry therefore wants the academy's future to be discussed within a broad circle of experts and decision-makers.

An independent institution

The Latvian Academy of Sciences is an independent institution, so the ministry's initiative concerns a body that is not itself subordinate to the ministry. Even so, the idea of evaluating both the academy's work and its leadership may win support in political and scientific circles alike.

The source material does not say when the commission could begin work, what its exact tasks would be, or what changes might follow the assessment. The individual members of the commission have not been named yet.