Among the Tibetan Children’s Villages, there is a 30 to one average student to teacher ratio. In the Villages, 95 percent of teachers are Tibetans, and 60 percent are TCV graduates. The Education Development and Research Center at Dharamsala boasts a teacher training center for teachers of grades one through five. These grades require special training, since they are taught in Tibetan. Teachers trained in Indian colleges do not have sufficient schooling in Tibetan language and culture to accommodate the Tibetanization program curriculum.

For grades six and higher, teachers are required by the Indian government to have an undergraduate degree and two years of teacher training. These standards are raised for teachers of the eleventh and twelfth grade levels, who by law must hold a master’s degree and teaching certificate.

The Tibetan Department of Education offers 15 scholarships each year for teacher education in the United States. A special division of the Fulbright Scholarship exists for the funding, which comes from the United States government through Tibetan government in exile. The Tibetan Fulbright scholar may be degree-seeking or desire professional development. Applicants for the grant must have completed an undergraduate degree; Fulbright is a highly competitive program. Upon completion of studying in the United States, the scholar returns to Tibet to teach at a TCV facility.