Education

Disabled Tibetan photographer aims high

Disabled Tibetan photographer aims high

Standing less than 1 meter tall, the wheelchair-bound Tibetan has brittle bone disease, which leads to frequent fractures. He is now 22 years old, despite doctors once predicting that he would never live beyond 20.

Xizang Minzu University trains talents in Hindi and Nepali languages

Xizang Minzu University trains talents in Hindi and Nepali languages

Xizang Minzu University, located in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, is the first institution of higher learning established for Tibet after the peaceful liberation of Tibet. Since its establishment 61 years ago, the school has played an active role as an incubator of higher education for Tibet, training talents for Tibet and serving Tibet’s economic and social development.

Education delivers choices for Tibetan herder families

Education delivers choices for Tibetan herder families

Sequ Zhoima, a 15-year-old from southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, regards her classmates, from all corners of the grassland where she was born and raised, as her second "family." Sequ Zhoima, a student in the eighth grade at Damxung County Middle School, joins 51 other students in embracing bilingual education.

Learning in harmony

Learning in harmony

Students reap rewards of shared, inclusive development in Tibet autonomous region, Alexis Hooi reports from Lhasa and Nyingchi.

Schools foster inclusive education

Schools foster inclusive education

Boarding schools in China have been helping the government promote inclusive education and have made a significant contribution to the global poverty reduction goals outlined in the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, while providing a valuable reference for the world, particularly developing countries, to ensure children enjoy the right to education.

Children in Tibet enjoy better education resources

Children in Tibet enjoy better education resources

The primary school of Zhaxizom Township is the closest school to Mount Qomolangma, with a distance of just over 40 kilometers. To meet the various needs of the students, the school has established interest classes such as piano, information technology, art, broadcasting, sports, dance, and handicrafts.

Boarding schools facilitate learning in Tibet

Boarding schools facilitate learning in Tibet

Most herdsmen in the Tibet autonomous region live in sparsely populated areas, causing great difficulties for their children to commute between home and school on a daily basis.

Tibet increases its support for soccer

Tibet increases its support for soccer

The Tibet autonomous region has carried out a series of plans for the development of soccer in recent years, and it has increased its support for soccer related projects in the region, Tibet Daily reported.

Tibet promotes IT-based education

Tibet promotes IT-based education

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has been promoting educational informatization over the past decade, with its 100-Mbps broadband network now fully covering primary and middle schools, authorities said on Sunday.

Over 32,000 students in Tibet take college entrance examination

Over 32,000 students in Tibet take college entrance examination

The 2022 college entrance examination in Tibet was held from June 7 to 9, with more than 32,000 candidates taking the examination, according to information learned from the Tibet Autonomous Region Education and Examination Institute on June 2.

Football game on the plateau

Football game on the plateau

Recently, the DELIXI Electric Hope Primary School in Shongmai Township, Sakya County, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region organized a football match, with 5 teams from grade three to grade six in the school participating in. All teachers and students from the school came to watch the game.

Nutritious meals offered to Lhasa primary schools in SW China's Tibet

Nutritious meals offered to Lhasa primary schools in SW China's Tibet

Students of a branch school of Lhasa Experimental Primary School have lunch in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 12, 2022. With the operation of a catering company, some 12,000 students of six primary schools in Chengguan District of Lhasa now enjoy nutritious lunches.

Teenagers in pastoral areas of Tibet attend taekwondo camp

Teenagers in pastoral areas of Tibet attend taekwondo camp

The second Tibet youth taekwondo camp ended at Basum Co youth activity campsite in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday, with 60 student-campers in the five-day camp learning the basic etiquette and gestures of taekwondo.

Online education aided by Shaanxi launched in Tibet

Online education aided by Shaanxi launched in Tibet

Students of Lhasa Ali high school attend a class given by a teacher of Xi 'an Gaoxin No. 1 High School via an online education system in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 8, 2022.