Aga Khan Education Services
The Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) has
a long tradition of leadership in educational development.
The foundations of the present system were laid by Sir
Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, under whose guidance
over 200 schools were established during the first half
of the 20th century, the first of them in 1905 in Zanzibar,
Gwadur in Pakistan and Mundra in India.
AKES currently operates more than 300 schools and advanced
educational programmes that provide quality pre-school,
primary, secondary and higher secondary education services
to more than 54,000 students in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh,
Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Uganda, Tanzania and Tajikistan.
Schools are also envisaged, or under development, in
Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar,
Mali, Mozambique and Syria.
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Programmes to improve educational quality have been
built into the AKES system since the early-1980s. Field-based
teacher training was launched in Pakistan’s Northern
Areas in 1983. School improvement experiments began
at the same time in Sindh province in Pakistan, where
AKES introduced student-centred teaching methods and
in Tanzania, where new techniques for secondary school
teaching in English, mathematics and science were implemented
in Dar es Salaam. AKES, Kenya has been the pioneer in
the use of computers in the classroom, while many Network
initiatives in pre-school education began in AKES, India.
Recent school improvement programmes have expanded the
impact of these initiatives to public, private and government
schools in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Pakistan (Sindh
and Northern Areas), Tajikistan and Uganda.
All of these experiments have been carried out in government
schools as well as AKES institutions, thereby contributing
to the improvement of education in the countries in
which AKES operates. With both the national service
companies and the Aga Khan Foundation acting as relays,
this body of experience in teacher development and school
improvement is having an impact well beyond the confines
of individual schools. The Institute for Educational
Development of the Aga Khan University was created to
provide a permanent institutional base that can sustain
these and other initiatives in education.
AKES is committed to achieving excellence by continuous
improvement of its programmes, services and processes.
These activities are planned, organised and financed
primarily through national service companies and boards.
The boards operate facilities and programmes in close
collaboration with other AKDN institutions, government
agencies and selected external partner agencies. The
national service companies are officially registered
as not-for-profit, non-governmental organisations in
each country of operation. Their international sponsor
is the Aga Khan Education Services S.A., which is incorporated
as a not-for-profit company in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The symbol of the Aga Khan Education Services is based
on the form of an open book containing a double image
of the word IQRA (to read) from the first revelation
of Allah to Prophet Muhammad (Sura 96 : Verses 1-5 of
the Holy Quran).
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