Mandarin Chinese is set to replace Tibetan as the official language of instruction in Tibetan schools in Qinghai province. In an October 2010 decision, the provincial government of Qinghai, which had previously allowed schools offering the nine years of compulsory education to use Tibetan as the language of instruction, indicated that Mandarin must be the [...]
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You can’t teach Tibetan in Qinghai
Posted in Life in Golok, Mayul School Photos, Need for a School for Tibetans, Qinghai in the news, tagged Mayul School Photos, schools for Tibetans, Tibet, Tibetan nomads on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Enviromental Devastation on the Tibetan Plateau
Posted in Life in Golok, Need for a School for Tibetans, Qinghai in the news, tagged Tibet, Tibetan nomads on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A September 2, 2010 article in the Guardian spotlighted the environmental degradation of the Tibetan plateau particularly in Qinghai province, location of our grant. This damage is caused by agricultural mismanagement and global warning. One impact of environmental degradation is the government’s removal of Tibetan nomads off of the land and to reservations where they [...]
New School Photos
Posted in Life in Golok, Need for a School for Tibetans, Project Info, tagged Mayul School Photos, schools for Tibetans, Tibet, Tibetan nomads on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On a September 2009 trip to Golok, Howard Stahl — president of the Blue Valley Foundation, the American branch of the Gesar Foundation, which is our Tibetan partner charity for this project — took several photos of the Mayul School. The first photo shows the progress on the administration building (the white building in the [...]
Forced Settlement of Nomads in Qinghai
Posted in Life in Golok, Need for a School for Tibetans, Qinghai in the news, Summer 2009 Visit, tagged Tibetan nomads on August 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Many of the students at the Mayul School come from nomad families, and this recent news story reminded us of the drastic changes occurring in nomad communities due to new government policies. Chinese government forcibly relocates Tibetan nomads (Xinhua). The Chinese government announced that it has moved about 50,000 Tibetan nomads from their homelands in [...]
