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Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets: Estonia and Russia should communicate despite disagreements
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Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed Russian-Estonian relations and exchanged opinions on items high on the regional and international agenda in a phone call on April 9. Liimets commented on the conversation in an interview with Interfax correspondent in Tallinn Arkady Prisyazhny.
Question: The Estonian and Russian foreign ministers have not met for five years. Bearing this in mind, your 20-minute conversation with Sergei Lavrov looked like a news bombshell. So, who was the first to pick the phone up?
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It has been remarked by people in the know that of the dozens of people who have passed through the revolving door of the office for the Minister of Education in recent decades, only a handful actually want the job.
Alan Tudge is one of them.
He has big ambitions for the education of Australiaâs youth. Having watched the slow but inexorable decline of Australiaâs standing on important international rankings in reading, maths and science, Tudge has set a short 10-year timeframe to get the country back on track. And it will be a back-to-basics approach.
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Most of the teenagers participating in the world’s largest math and science test believe that they can improve their own intelligence, and the strength of this “growth mindset” is linked not just to how well they do but to their own sense of well-being.
In 2018, the Program for International Student Assessment asked some 600,000 15-year-olds from 78 countries and economies whether they believed their own intelligence is something fixed and unchangeable; disagreeing with that has been shown in decades of prior research to predict higher academic achievement through a student’s willingness to persevere in difficult tasks and recover more quickly from failure, among other things.