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The President's Cultural Foundation to award three Education Prizes
11.10.2004


President Arnold Rüütel at 12:00 today, October 11, at Kadriorg will hand over Education Prizes of the President's Cultural Foundation. In this year, from among 22 candidates three laureates were selected.

The Education Prize 2004 to the amount of 50,000 kroons went to Jüri Vene, long-time headmaster and chemistry teacher at the Miina Härma Upper Secondary School, to the amount of 30,000 kroons to Tiia-Ester Loitme, outstanding music teacher and chorus master who with Ellerhein Girls' Choir has won Grammy Award, and to the amount of 20,000 kroons to Irene Käosaar and Peeter Mehisto, managers of a successful language immersion project who have introduced a new language teaching methodology in Estonia.

The Education Prize established in the last year is awarded to educators at all levels having distinguished themselves by professional excellence in Estonian educational life as teachers, university teachers, leaders or employees of educational establishments, authors of textbooks or methodological materials, as well as initiators and implementers of practical educational innovations, or as education officials who have developed education policy. The first Education Prizes issued in the last year went to Tarmo Kerstna, Kersti Nigesen and Martin Ehala. The Education Prize is funded by Hansapank.

Journalists are welcome to cover the event.


Public Relations Unit of the Office of the President
Kadriorg, October 11, 2004


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