Pabna Cadet College (), is a residential

military high school Military high school is a type of high school that includes military cadet education and so are a form of military academy. They are found in several countries and offer a regular high school education but with an extra military training curricul ...

, partly financed by the

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, located at Jalalpur, east of

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town,

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History

Pabna Cadet College was one of six cadet colleges set up in a second wave (1979–1983) after the initial four were established between 1958 and 1964, during the Pakistan era. It was created on 7 August 1981 by converting Pabna Residential Model College. It started with 170 boys of the residential school in four classes. As of 2022, the cadet college boards 320 boys, between the ages of 12 and 18, in six classes from class VII to XII. Cadet colleges were designed to be feeder schools for the officer academies of the armed forces, but nowadays, they are no longer reserved for students planning to pursue a career in the military.

Campus

The cadet college is located on on the north side of the Dhaka-Pabna highway at the village of Jalalpur in

Pabna Sadar Upazila Pabna Sadar () is an upazila of Pabna District in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Geography Pabna Sadar is located at . It has 74,517 households and the total area is 439.30 km2. Demographics According to the 2011 Census of Banglade ...

, about east of

. Within the campus are a three-storey academic block, student housing, a dining hall and adjacent canteen, and Bir Sreshtha Nur Muhammad Hospital, named after Bir Sreshtho Lance Naik Nur Mohammad Sheikh.

Administration

The

provides some of the funding for cadet colleges, administers them, and runs them on a military model.

References

External links

Official Pabna Cadet College Site
{{Cadet Colleges in Bangladesh Military high schools 1981 establishments in Bangladesh Cadet colleges in Bangladesh Organisations based in Pabna Educational Institutions affiliated with Bangladesh Army Educational institutions established in 1981 Colleges in Rajshahi Division Universities and colleges in Pabna District