The current economic change positive trait is fact that the Latvian education and management practices, increasingly more important concepts: interest, attitude .The article analyzes the university pedagogical students' attitude towards study as academic orientation.Discussion: Why pedagogy students formed strong field of interest, presenting certain academic progress?Conclusions: Student's interests-Future teachers work nowadays due to the student's interests in promoting the value of awareness and attitude towards studies.

Modern education is closely connected with implementation and using of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the teaching process. The questionnaire of teachers and directors of Latvia schools was carried out in order to evaluate the situation of ICT in schools and the attitude of school pedagogues toward this process. The results of the questionnaire showed that supply of schools with modern ICT in Latvia is not sufficient. The respondents expressed their views: what are the main obstacles of effective implementation of ICT in the study process and what are the priority challenges in the implementation of ICT in schools. Key words: information and communication technologies, schools, implementation, teachers, directors.

Interest is one of the most meaningful components for successful learning process. Nowadays students’ interest about science and mathematics is decreasing. The aim of the study is to explore the interest of Grade 9 students in science and mathematics. In Latvia and Lithuania students were surveyed and it helped to explore the respondents’ interests in science and mathematics. The survey shows that students have rather pronounced interest to explore and solve problems connected with the real life. Keywords: interest in science, learning process, science and mathematics.