4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Schools in Tibet are changing - and not for the better, say activists. Micky Bristow investigates China’s educational reforms: children as young as four separated from their families and forced into boarding schools, it’s claimed, learning in Chinese, not Tibetan. Is this an attempt at social engineering to undermine Tibetan culture, or is it, as China claims, a bold effort to bring progress to an underdeveloped region?
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0:24.0 | The unmistakable sound of school, this one's in Tibet. |
0:30.0 | It's modern, well-equipped and full of happy |
0:35.5 | children. Well that's how they seem. Beijing has introduced sweeping changes to |
0:41.8 | the education system in Tibet. It is proud of what it's done |
0:45.1 | and says it's giving youngsters there the best start possible. But there's another version of that story. |
0:52.2 | There were CCTV cameras installed everywhere would be |
0:56.8 | beaten as punishment. The boarding school in Tibet are not schools. They are |
1:02.2 | jails for children. |
1:04.0 | The school system has, they're hiding its ideological conspiracy of China, |
1:10.0 | to re-educate our young generation the way that they planned. |
1:17.0 | For these people, China's educational reforms are an attempt at social engineering |
1:22.0 | to eradicate an independent Tibetan language and culture. |
1:26.0 | Children separated from their families and sent to boarding schools, |
1:30.0 | forced to speak Chinese, making it difficult to communicate even with their own loved ones. |
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