Exile Tibetan education meet focuses on declining enrolment, urgency to preserve identity

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(TibetanReview.net, Sep29’26) – The executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), Sikyong Penpa Tsering, has on Sep 28 cited low birth rate among exile Tibetans as a major reason for the declining trend in Tibetan school enrolments. There are other major reasons also, of course, including a near-total end to new refugee arrivals from Chinese occupied Tibet and many young Tibetans moving to the West due to tough livelihood opportunities in India and Nepal. Both he and the Education Kalon (minister) Urgen Tenzin have emphasized the urgency to strengthen the implementation of the CTA’s Basic Education Policy (BEP) in light of China’s recently enacted Ethnic Unity and Progress promotion Law (Ethnic...

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