Higher Education
The central government held the Second National Conference on Work in Tibet in 1984, and Tibet University was established the same year. Tibet had six institutes of higher learning as of 2006. When the National Higher Education Entrance Examination was first established in 1980, ethnic Tibetans were only 10% of the higher education entrants from the region. However, in 1984, the Chinese Ministry of Education effected policy changes including affirmative action and Tibetan language accommodations. Today, ethnic Tibetans are 60% of the enrolled, the Tibet Autonomous Region as a whole has 17.4% gross enrollment.
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