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The School encourages students to respect and appreciate other people’s cultures, social structures, values and beliefs.
The Aga Khan School, Dhaka Approach
The Aga Khan School, Dhaka strives to create a harmonious balance between academic demands, sporting, cultural activities and community life. We challenge our students 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. The Aga Khan School, Dhakaoffers 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. AKES is also developing new school in Kyrgyzstan and Madagascar and studying the feasibility of services and facilities of Mozambique.
English Language Requirement
As an English-medium school, all instruction is in English except for the National Language, which is taught in Bengali. The students are fluent in oral and written English and Bengali.
Partnerships
The School has an active International Academic Partnership with Phillips Academy, Andover and the Aga Khan University-Institute of Educational Development, Karachi, Pakistan. Both are actively involved in the professional development of staff. Such academic partnerships allow the School to focus on staff development and training.
