Taiwan to send Mandarin teachers to Tibetan schools in India

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New Delhi, March 25 (CNA) Taiwan will send Chinese-language teachers to Tibetan schools in India, under an agreement signed Wednesday with a Tibetan higher education institute.

The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by the education division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC) in New Delhi and the Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education.

Under the MOU, Taiwanese teachers will be placed in Tibetan schools to teach Mandarin, thus creating more opportunities for cultural exchange and mutual understanding, according to TECC head Chen Mu-min (陳牧民), Taiwan's representative to India.

The initiative marks the first formal collaboration in higher education between Taiwan and the Tibetan community in India, Chen told CNA.

Tenzin Pasan, principal of the Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education in Bangalore, said the school has been offering Mandarin courses since its establishment in 2008, but they have been mostly ta...

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