China Tibet Online
2015-06-08
At 9am on June 7th, the national College Entrance Examination known as Gaokao began. This year, Tibet has a total of 22,590 candidates, 90 percent of whom are minority students, and 83 percent of whom are the children of farmers and herdsmen.
Tibetan language is a subject tested independently by Tibet Education Bureau. In 2013, the first curriculum and Gaokao instructions on Tibetan language was compiled in Tibetan history by Tibetan language teachers selected from middle schools.
This year, Tibet has designed the tests of Tibetan language in strict accordance with the requirements of the syllabus. Tibetan language examination will be held on the morning of June 9th.
This year three blind candidates; in Lhasa City and Nagqu Prefecture participated in Gaokao. Separate exam rooms and teachers have been arranged to assist them to take the exam.
According to Lu Shicheng, Dean of Tibet Education Examinations, in recent years in the college enrolment plan in Tibet, a special rural poverty plan has been established to help the children of farmers and herdsmen to attend college, setting up a separate batch of admission for these students. In 2014, the college admission rate for children of farmers and herdsmen was 71 percent, an increase of nearly 10 percent.
In the bonus policy, the children of returned overseas Tibetans as well as nine other categories of candidates can be rewarded up to 30 bonus points.
