| Friday, November 09, 2001, updated at 15:05(GMT+8) |
First High School in Tibet Celebrates 45th Anniversary |
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Lhasa Middle School, the first high school in the history, celebrated its 45th anniversary Thursday. The school fulfills its duty to cultivate talents.
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Lhasa Middle School, the first high school in the history of Tibet and named after its capital city, celebrated its 45th anniversary Thursday.
Founded in 1956, Lhasa Middle School was the first of its kind to be built by the Communist Party of China and the Central People's Government in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The school now has more than 2,800 students and 48 classes. It is the key middle school in Tibet and an experimental school employing modern educational technology designated by the Ministry of Education.
The school has a TV studio, multi-media electronic teaching classrooms, a gymnasium, library, and laboratory building.
Nearly 20,000 people have received junior and senior middle school education in the school over the past 45 years. More than 5,800 of these were able to go to college after graduation.
In recent years, over 95 percent of the school's students have been enrolled by colleges and universities across the country.
Tibet has made rapid progress in education since the peaceful liberation in 1951. The enrollment rate of school-age children has increased from less than two percent in the past to 85.8 percent in 2000.
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