| The Aga Khan Education Services (AKES)
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| | Pakistan, AKES has increased the number
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| provides schooling and other educational
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| | and range of facilities available to
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| services in over 300 facilities in the
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| | girls.
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| developing world, ranging from day care
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| | Programme to improve educational quality
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| center to higher secondary schools. With
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| | have been built into the AKES system
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| roots in the Ismaili community's
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| | since the early 1980s. Field-based
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| traditions of educational activity,
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| | teacher training was launched in the
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| national service companies in Tanzania,
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| | Northern Areas in 1983. School
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| Kenya, Uganda, India, Pakistan and
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| | improvement experiments began at the same
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| Bangladesh now manage these schools and
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| | time in Sind province in Pakistan, where
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| centers.
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| | AKES introduced child-centered teaching
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| The foundations of the system were laid
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| | methods, and in Tanzania, where new
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| by Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah during the
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| | techniques for secondary school teaching
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| first half of the twentieth century when
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| | in English, Mathematics and Science were
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| over a hundred schools were established,
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| | implemented in Dar-es-Salam. AKES, Kenya
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| mainly for the Ismaili community, in East
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| | has been the Network pioneer in the uses
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| Africa and South Asia. Under the
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| | of computers in the classroom, while many
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| leadership of the Present Imam, the
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| | Network initiatives in pre-school
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| schools began to broaden their intake of
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| | education began in AKES, India.
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| pupils and extend their academic range in
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| | Supported by the Aga Khan Foundation,
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| the 1950s.
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| | some of these experiments have been
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| Today, AKES faces the same constraints as
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| | carried out in government schools as well
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| other providers of education in the
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| | as AKES institutions, so contributing to
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| developing world, whether public or
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| | the improvement of education in the
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| private: population growth outstripping
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| | countries in which AKES operates. And
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| resources, educational costs increasing
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| | with both the national service companies
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| at a faster rate than income, poorly
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| | and the Aga Khan Foundation acting as
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| trained teachers, inappropriate curricula
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| | relays, this body of experience in
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| and in some areas, the low health and
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| | teacher development and school
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| education to diminish these obstacles to
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| | improvement is having impact throughout
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| educational access and achievement. To
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| | the Network. The Institute for
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| increase access, AKES has continued to
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| | Educational Development of the Aga Khan
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| create schools; in close collaboration
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| | University has been created to provide a
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| with the Aga Khan Housing Boards and AKF,
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| | permanent institutional base that can
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| it has also supported community-based
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| | sustain these and other initiatives in
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| school construction. In the north of
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| | education.
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