The Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karachi - Pakistan
     
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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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