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Government drops three fields of study requirement.

The Ministry of Education and the Riigikogu Cultural Affairs Committee have decided to drop the requirement that would have seen all high schools offer at least three fields of study from September this year. Chairman of the committee, Urmas Klaas, said that the three fields requirement would not fulfill its goal and that other measures should be taken to ensure students have a choice. The main reason for the decision is a hypothetical situation where neighboring schools in Tallinn would be forced to try and copy each other's strengths, wasting resources while not offering any real alternatives to students.

Klaas said that the one-time situation of having too little choice on the secondary education landscape has improved notably and the requirement is simply not needed. While heads of schools are in favor of dropping the idea, several of them are irritated by what they describe as blitz decisions in education. Heads of schools speculated already in 2010 that the three fields of study reform is a tool to force smaller high schools to close their doors in fears of not being able to comply with the requirement in time.

Riigikogu squeezes fast loan providers.

The parliament passed a law on Thursday forcing loan providers to run more thorough background checks on clients and prescribing stricter loan advertising rules. As of June, credit providers are forced to run a background check on potential clients to determine whether they are capable of repaying loans.

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