Dharamshala — Chinese authorities stripped the teaching rights of a Tibetan vocational school in Lhasa, the capital of occupied Tibet, claiming that it violated the regulations of the Lhasa City Council. The school had helped many Tibetans acquire vocational skills and subsequently find employment, but the Chinese authorities alleged that the school was in breach of the law and revoked its right to continue operating.
Chinese authorities in the Lhasa, Capital of Tibet, revoked teaching rights of a <<Tibetan Dream Vocational Skills Training School>> on April 10, 2024, claiming that it has violated the regulations of the Lhasa City Council.
According to a source, “the school trains ordinary, uneducated Tibetan students in skills such as accountancy, excavation, Chinese cooking, and beauty care and so on. In addition, the school does not charge tuition fees for technical education, but offers on-campus dormitories for students living away from home.’’
"The Vocational Training School has educated and trained many local Tibetans and helped them find jobs. After their training at the school, the Tibetans opened their own restaurants and hairdressing salons", the source told TPI.
"But the Chinese authorities of the Lhasa City Council have withdrawn the school's right to teach. Once the Chinese authorities have given different names to the ''illegal activities", it is difficult to know what will be the fate of the school in the future", added the source.
In recent years, the Chinese government has shut down schools run by Tibetans and has not allowed Tibetan language to be taught in schools, arresting Tibetan language advocates, Tibetan teachers and Tibetan writers, with the aim of eliminating the Tibetan language, culture, Buddhism and Tibetan identity.
In addition, the Chinese government imposes laws banning the teaching of Tibetan to schoolchildren during the summer and winter school holidays. The Chinese government has separated one million Tibetan children from their parents and placed them in Chinese colonial-style boarding schools from the age of four, where they learn the Chinese language and culture.
