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The Aga Khan Approach & School History |
Achievements |
Facilities |
Education Service |
International Partnerships |
FAQs
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The Aga Khan Approach
The Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karachi
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
Established in 1995, the Aga Khan Higher Secondary
School, Karachi (AKHSS) is situated in a 26-acre
campus next to the Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan
School and the Aga Khan University-Institute for
Educational Development. Since its inception,
the school has strived to provide quality education
to its students.
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.
Built around a central courtyard, the school's
two-storey structure is simple and spacious in
design. AKHSS has facilities for a conducive teaching
and learning environment including computer facilities,
library, laboratories, health service, recreational
and sports facilities. The school continues to
expand with the construction of three new classrooms
and a 50-capacity computer lab.
School population
The co-educational School offers the two-year
Higher Secondary Certificate programme prescribed
by the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi.
For the academic year 2003 - 04, 750 students
are enrolled in the School. There are 400 and
350 students in Class XI and XII respectively.
Student numbers will subsequently rise to 800
in the next session.
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