{"id":27392,"date":"2026-05-27T05:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/?p=27392"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:56:08","slug":"hiiumaa-as-a-guinea-pig-a-lesson-for-the-whole-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/no-53\/hiiumaa-as-a-guinea-pig-a-lesson-for-the-whole-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiiumaa as a Guinea Pig, a Lesson for the Whole World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The article argues that Hiiumaa\u2019s education reform exposes a major knowledge gap: school closures and programme cuts are often justified by labour-market logic, but their broader impact on rural communities is poorly understood. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The reform may weaken local identity, community life, regional access to education, and the future use of Suurem\u00f5isa manor and its vocational school ecosystem. The author proposes treating Hiiumaa as a research-based test case and documenting the reform systematically over time. The central solution is to produce deep, longitudinal, community-focused research so future education decisions in Estonia and elsewhere account not only for labour demand, but also for social, cultural, and regional consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article argues that Hiiumaa\u2019s education reform exposes a major knowledge gap: school closures and programme cuts are often justified by labour-market logic, but their broader impact on rural communities is poorly understood. The reform may weaken local identity, community life, regional access to education, and the future use of Suurem\u00f5isa manor and its vocational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"class_list":["post-27392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-53","topic-varia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27394,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27392\/revisions\/27394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}