Construction sites in China progress at dizzying speed, and that of the new high school in the Tibetan prefecture of Golog, launched a year ago, it was no exception. Behind the fences, cranes and dump trucks, the structure of the buildings was already complete. “Girls” Bedroom “was written in blue letters in one building. Another indicated that he would house classrooms.
From the beginning of the 2026 school year, 3000 high school and secondary students will move to this new boarding school. More than half of the high school students of the Golog Prefecture, a region that is 92% Tibetan, will be distributed between two institutions, this and one narrower that opened in 2019 a few boxes away, Xining.
These two secondary schools for young people in the Golog Prefecture have a surprising point in common: they are not found in Golog. From the new installation in construction in the city of Haidong, located at the foot of the Tibetan plateau, to the largest city in the region, it is actually 480 kilometers, at least seven and a half hours by road, and many families live. The official press emphasizes that the average altitude of 4,200 meters, isolation and hard climatic conditions on the Tibetan plateau contribute to a low quality education. The articles argue that in the boarding schools outside the plateau, the results of these young people improve on the Chinese equivalent of the Secondary School Diploma.
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