Aga Khan School, Dhaka

The Aga Khan School, Dhaka, is an English Medium School, in Uttara, DhakaThe Aga Khan School – About – Google under the Aga Khan Development Network (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. Dr. Dale Taylor is the current Head of Education.

History The Aga Khan School, Dhaka was formed back in 1988, in the library of the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB), an institution of the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh. The foundations of the present system were laid by Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III, who established over 200 schools 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 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 International Baccalaureate 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.

Dr. Dale Taylor 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 National Curriculum for England, designed to prepare students for IGCSE and GCE Advanced Level examinations.

Fahmida Chowdhury 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 Cambridge International Examinations.

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.

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 Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, United States and Schule Schloss Salem in Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Reflections (The Aga Khan Yearbook) Reflections, the AKSD Yearbook, has been a strong tradition for 30 years, since its inception in 1995 and its last ever yearbook, published in 2024. The Yearbook is created by the Yearbook Committee, a group formed by students who perform every task to get the book published from scratch. The following is a list of the books, and their corresponding lead editors. +YearNameLead Editors1995REFLECTIONSShafat Zaman, Hasan Munasir, Tazin Abdullah1996REFLECTIONS '96Mumtad Choudhury, Ju-un Choudhury1997REFLECTIONS '97Mashfiq Ul Haque199889' ƧИOITƆƎ⅃ꟻƎЯFuad Abdullah, Nazmul Alam, Ahad Hussain1999REFLECTIONS ‘99Amir Sattar, Sama Khan, Samin Abdullah2000REFLECTIONS 2000Faria Tazin Rahman, Sabeer Zaman2003REFLECTIONS 2002-03Munir Susan, Shoeb Sonia, Ibrahim Mohammad2004REFLECTIONS 2003-04Tahsin Mahmood, Karina Z. Khandakar2007REFLECTIONS 2004-07Rashid Mustafa, Bidoura Mosharraf, Naushin Ahmed2008REFLECTIONS 2007-08Faiyaz Amit, Sharina Muzahid2009REFLECTIONS 2008-09Wasi Mesbahuddin, Naushin Ahmed, Ridwan Faruq, Ahnaf Habib Khan2012REFLECTIONS 2009-12Hassan Ferdous, Saad Bin Reza, Fahria Tasneem, Tushar Ahmed2014REFLECTIONS 2013-14Saadman Islam, Mujaheed Khan2016REFLECTIONS 2015-16Anisha Islam, Naiyara Ahscan.2017REFLECTIONS 2016-17Prionzita Chakraborty, Afrida Nawal, Senjuti Basak2018REFLECTIONS 2017-18Drubha Nil Ghosh, Tousif Islam, Bushratun Nusaibah2019REFLECTIONS 2018-19Fabia Masud, Farazi Fayezuddin, Bushratun Nusaibah, Tousif Islam2020REFLECTIONS 2019-20Nabiha Mahmud, Smiti Modhurima2024REFLECTIONS 2023-34Syed Rohan Hoque, Tahsin Shabab Khan

List of Heads of Education Tenure Nationality Name 1988–1991 Mohiuddin Babar (acting) 1991–1994 Zul Khuja 1994–1997 Kenneth McCaffery 1997–2009 George Gaddon Kays 2010–2011 Jacqueline Parai 2011–2014 Nicola Sum 2015 —2017 Fatima J. Husein 2017 – November 2018 Craig Salmon2019–2021 Dr. Dale Taylor

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

Primary School Secondary School Principal Dr. Dale Taylor Heads Shatila Reza Late Fahmida Chowdhury Coordinators Latifa RahmanTanjina HossainSyeda Syeda Mobasshera SultanaSM Fouzia Akhter Khan Md. Mahmudul Hasan Shemoul Hamid Shamima Shahnaz Usha Kasana Operations Manager Major Waliur Rahman IT Manager Faruk Sikder (Acting) Finance Officer Karim Nathu

Aga Khan School, Dhaka

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