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The President of the Republic honoured Education Prize laureates
11.10.2004


President Arnold Rüütel today at Kadriorg handed over the Education Prizes of the President's Cultural Foundation.

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

Jüri Vene said that he and the other two prize recipients were very glad, and added that in Estonia there were many teachers whose work deserved honouring and that, first of all, the mass media could pay more attention to them.

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. In the last year the Education Prizes were awarded to Tarmo Kerstna, Kersti Nigesen and Martin Ehala. The Education Prize is funded by Hansapank.


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


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