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AKDN's Involvement in Education
Introduction
The AKDN’s education programmes cover a wide spectrum
of activities ranging from early childhood care and
education through to degrees in medicine. The Aga
Khan Education Services, the Aga
Khan Foundation, Aga
Khan University, the Aga Khan Academies and
the University of Central Asia are the lead organisations
in education, but all institutions are involved in
some form of training or education, whether it is through
curriculum reform, exhibitions of Islamic art or literacy
programmes for employees of economic project companies.
School improvement programmes and the professional
development of teachers and administrators play a central
role in strategies designed to improve access -- with
a special emphasis on girls -- and raise retention
rates and overall achievement. Others address cross-cultural
understanding in North America and Central Asia through
curriculum design. All programmes, including their
research components, strive for excellence in design
and implementation and relevance to developing world
contexts.
What's New
22 August 2007
Aga Khan to build Uganda’s first Aga Khan Academy
(Press Release, Speech
by His Highness the Aga Khan, Photographs,
Welcome Address by Salim
Bhatia and Video)
19 August 2007
Aga Khan Announces the East African Community’s First Regional
University to be based in Arusha (Press
Release, Communiqué de
presse en français and Photographs)
14 August 2007
Aga Khan Foundation Celebrates 25 Years of the Madrasa Programme
(Press Release,
Speech by His Highness
the Aga Khan and Photographs)
Aga Khan Academy Mombasa Builds Residential Campus to Welcome
Students from Across Kenya (Press
Release, Speech by
His Highness the Aga Khan, Speech
by Salim Bhatia, Photographs
and Video)
Aga Khan University Announces the Faculty of Health Sciences
in East Africa (Speech
by His Highness the Aga Khan, Remarks
by Mr. Firoz Rasul, Press
Release, Photographs
and Video)
Aga Khan Education Services (AKES)
Aga Khan Education Services (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, Uganda,
Tanzania, and Tajikistan. In every setting, AKES’s programmes are
designed to pursue excellence in educational practice and management; to
introduce child-centred teaching methods; emphasise female education; and
support school-based teacher training.
Find out more
on Aga Khan Education Services
Visit
the Aga Khan Schools website
Aga Khan Academies
The conviction that home-grown intellectual
leadership of exceptional calibre is the best driver of society’s
future development led His Highness the Aga Khan to found
an integrated network of residential schools in Africa, South
and Central Asia, and the Middle East, known as the Aga
Khan Academies. The Aga Khan Academies have a dual mission: to
offer exceptional girls and boys from all backgrounds --
irrespective of their families’ ability to pay -- an
international standard of education from pre-primary to secondary
levels with a rigorous academic and leadership experience;
and to strengthen the profession of teaching by investing
substantially in the professional development of teachers,
locally and regionally. The first such school, the Aga Khan
Academy in Mombasa, began operating in August of 2003.
Find
out more on Aga Khan Academies | Visit
Aga Khan Academies website
University of Central Asia (UCA)
The University of Central Asia (UCA) was founded
in 2000 by the governments of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic
and Tajikistan, and His Highness the Aga Khan. Its programmes
are geared towards addressing key social and economic issues
facing the region and, particularly, facing mountain communities.
UCA’s School of Professional and Continuing Education
(SPCE), which is currently offering courses, is Central
Asia’s first provider of formal, university-based,
non-degree educational programmes, offering vocational,
professional development and personal improvement opportunities
to youth and adults.
UCA will eventually offer a range of
internationally recognized academic programmes, including
undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree courses, non-degree
preparatory courses for incoming degree candidates, and
vocational, professional development and distance education
courses for students and professionals beyond the three
UCA campuses.
Find out more on
University of Central Asia | Visit
University of Central Asia website
Aga Khan University (AKU)
Chartered in 1983 as Pakistan’s first
private university, Aga Khan University's objective
is to promote human welfare in general, and the welfare
of the people of Pakistan in particular, by disseminating
knowledge and providing instruction, training, research
and service in the health sciences, education and such
other branches of learning as the University may determine.
Through its Medical
College, School
of Nursing and teaching
Hospital, its Institute
for Educational Development,
Institute
for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the
Examination Board, the University educates while contributing
to the development of the areas in which it operates.
It currently has teaching nine teaching sites in five
countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania,
and the United Kingdom.
Find out
more on Aga Khan University | Visit
the Aga Khan University website
Aga Khan Foundation
The Aga Khan Foundation strives to improve
the quality of basic education by ensuring better early caring
and learning environments for young children; increasing
access to education; keeping children in school longer; and
raising levels of academic achievement. Girls, the very poor
and geographically remote populations receive special attention.
The focus of current grants are on the following areas: the
location, timing and content of teacher training; professional
development for all categories of educators and caregivers;
the role of governments, NGOs, communities and parents in
financing and managing education; and the cultural and economic
relevance of the curriculum. Roughly half the education projects
it supports, as well as half the financial investments it
makes, is concentrated in stimulating the development of
the young child.
Find out
more on the Aga Khan Foundation
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