More than 141,000 children from Tibet have taken part in a scheme known as “inland classes”
Admission to the programme is highly competitive. Applicants must not only excel academically. They must also “ardently love” the party and socialism, say guidelines issued last year by a local government in Tibet. Even so, those accepted must receive further “ideological and political education” before they set off.
The programme’s apparent aim is to win the support of elites in restive frontier areas and give the brightest ethnic-minority children more exposure to Han culture. The education they receive atschools is usually superior to that available in their native regions. It is also heavily subsidised. The students gain a mastery of Mandarin that would be hard to achieve at home. Under a government affirmative-action policy, university-entrance requirements are lower for ethnic minorities.
In 2015 President Xi Jinping said the project had achieved “outstanding” results. But it gets mixed reviews from participants. A Uighur graduate from the first Xinjiang class says most of his classmates were, like himself, the children of government officials. But they were described condescendingly at the school as “precious people” from Xinjiang, even “like pandas”. He says they were closely watched.
Despite efforts by his school to introduce the Uighurs to their Han fellow-students, members of the two ethnic groups rarely became friends. At mostschools, ethnic-minority students attend separate classes and live in segregated accommodation . “We’re second-class citizens. Why? We’re all Chinese...aren’t we?” says a formerSome pupils find it hard to adapt to their schools’ Han-centric teaching, including exclusive use of Mandarin.
Among Tibetans the programme has a high drop-out rate—participants often find it hard to adapt to the different cultural and academic environment. After finishing their studies, ethnic minorities have difficulty getting the kind of work they want. The government offers them incentives to work in remote parts of their home regions as teachers and police officers. But most prefer to work in cities, says Timothy Grose of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana.
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