Interested in joining our team?

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If you are a qualified and experienced teacher with an intimate knowledge of the Indian education system, and are interested in applying your skills in Ladakh, please take a look at the job descriptions in the Help/Job Opportunities section of this website. 

Druk White Lotus School is seeking the following professional staff:

Leadership Team
  • Academic Coordinator

Senior Teachers

  • English
  • Maths
  • Science

Teachers

  • Art
  • Montessori
Student Welfare
  • Pastoral Care

Please go to HELP/Job Opportunities for detailed Job Descriptions and additional information on how to apply.

Books, books and more books - Latest News 5th October 2010

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Books, books and more books

Most of the books on the campus were destroyed in the August mudslide.  Members of the Arup Design Team visited Shey in September 2010 and brought 80kg of reading books collected by Darrick Wood School, London, and Pilgrim School in Bedfordshire, UK.  The Druk White Lotus children were very excited to see so many books and were soon engrossed.

Ladakhi Pavilion goes to London - Latest News 4th October 2010

During the summer of 2010, a volunteer group of US architectural students from BaSiC Initiative came to the school. One of their projects was to design, fabricate and erect a large canvas tent structure from recycled parachutes. The structure was then taken to London and re-erected in the garden of Marlborough House as the Commonwealth Pavilion during The Earth Awards and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales' START garden party in September 2010. 
 
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The Pavilion will return to Ladakh and take its place on the Shey campus once again in 2011.

Illuminated Model School - Latest News 1st October 2010

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Illuminated Model School

During September 2010 the Royal Academy of Engineering hosted an exhibition about Druk White Lotus School as part of the London Design Festival. Arup Associates prepared a stunning display of school images before and after the mudslide damage, and built an illuminated model of the Master Plan showing how the campus will be when complete. The exhibition was open to the public.

School's founder honoured by United Nations

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School's founder honoured by the United Nations in New York

On 19th September 2010, His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa, founder of Druk White Lotus School, received the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Award in recognition of His humanitarian activities.