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Aga Khan Education Services (akes)

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



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