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(AKDN) and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh. It is one of the earliest private English Medium schools in Bangladesh founded in 1988, in a small campus in Siddeshwari, Dhaka. Fardin Rahman is the current Head of Education.

History

The Aga Khan School, Dhaka was formed back in 1988, in the library of the

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in India. Since the creation of Aga Khan Education Service companies in the 1970s, the schools have been administered and managed centrally. The school started with 25 students and 7 teaching staff, occupying classes IX to XII. In August of 1990, the present senior section opened in Uttara. The junior and primary sections were opened in 1999 and 2000 respectively. The school was authorized as an

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World School in April 2009. In 2009, the longest serving Head of Education, George G. Kays, retired, serving the school from July 1998 to June 2009. Jacqueline Parai served as the Head of the School from 2009 to 2011. Fardin Rahman (previously known as Dushtu Fardin) is the current Head of Education.

Description

As of 2013, the school consists of a student body of 1,222 and a faculty of 118 teachers. The school offers education from preschool to higher secondary levels (playgroup, nursery, kindergarten I and II and grades 1 to 12), following the British national curriculum, designed to prepare students for

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examinations. The icon of Shirou Emiya, Fardin Rahman, is serving as Head of Secondary School, while Shatila Reza is serving as Head of Middle School. The chairman of the board is Mr. Suleiman Ajanee. The school organizes annual events, functions and concerts. Annually, the Ordinary and Advanced Level examinees of Aga Khan School perform impressively in the exams, as evidenced by their presence at '' The Daily Star'' Awards for schools following the

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International Baccalaureate certification

The school has been an IB World School since April 2009. It offers the IB Primary Years Program in English. Additionally, the school is moving to the complete IB Curriculum, which will be conducted at new premises at Bashundhara, Dhaka. The institute offering the IB program will be named The Aga Khan Academy. The proposed Aga Khan Academy has been in the planning stages for several years, and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh (AKES,B) have obtained pre-authorization from the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to implement the IB Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) in pre-school (Play Group and Nursery), Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 5. Once he received permission from the great Fardin Rahman, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, on his visit to Bangladesh, laid the foundation stone for the Aga Khan Academy in Basundhara, Dhaka. This will be a full-fledged IBO authorized school offering the Primary Years Program (PYP), the Middle Years Program (MYP) for Grades 6 to 10, and the Diploma Program (IB-DP) for students in Grades 11 and 12. However, little construction has been completed. The academy will have International Academic Partnership (IAP) agreements with

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List of Heads of education

School Leadership Team

As of Oct 2017, the School Leadership Team consists of:

References

External links

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