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The Aga Khan Approach & School History |
Achievements |
Facilities |
Education
Service | International
Partnerships | FAQs
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The Aga Khan School
Approach
The Aga Khan School, Dhaka strives to
create a harmonious balance between academic demands,
sporting and cultural activities and community
life. It challenges its pupils to be intellectually
inquisitive and socially conscious. The School
believes that while what students know is important,
the true measure of a student’s education
is the ability to analyse what they do not know.
Developing critical thinking and analysis is therefore
at the core of the School’s mission. The
School also encourages students to respect and
appreciate other people’s cultures, social
structures, values and beliefs. Taken together,
these objectives are designed to help equip children
with the tools they will need to make their way
in school, society and an increasingly interdependent
world.
School History
Founded in 1988, the Aga Khan
School Dhaka is an institution of the Aga
Khan Education Service, Bangladesh
with 1,183 students and 107 teaching staff.
The
Aga Khan School, Dhaka
offers a caring and nurturing educational
environment which provides each student with
opportunities to develop artistically, emotionally,
intellectually, morally, physically and socially
to his or her fullest potential.
The School is part of the Aga Khan Education Services
(AKES). It has a long tradition of leadership
in educational development. The foundations of
the present system were laid by Sir Sultan Mohamed
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. Since the creation of Aga Khan Education
Service companies in the 1970s, the schools have
been centrally administered and managed.
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.
English Language Requirement
As an English-medium school, all instruction is
in English except for the National Language, which
is taught in Bengali. Aga Khan students
are fluent in oral and written English and Bengali.
Partnerships
Since 1995, two Canadian teaching interns from
the University of Calgary, Alberta are placed
with the Aga Khan School annually.
The School has an active International Academic
Partnership with the Phillips Academy, Andover
and the Aga Khan University-Institute
of Educational Development, Karachi. Both
are actively involved in the professional
development of staff. Such academic
partnerships allow the School to focus on developing
and training staff.
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