Aga Khan IV: Educating tomorrow’s leaders
His Highness the Aga Khan
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Article Author: Aga Khan IV: Educating tomorrow’s leaders
Media Source: IB (Switzerland)
Date: 14 October 2018
His Highness has been deeply engaged with development for the past 60 years through the work of the AKDN. One of the AKDN's key education programmes is the network of the Aga Khan Academies (AKA). When asked why the AKA opted for the IB curriculum, His Highness says: "we could see several key areas of alignment with the…
His Highness has been deeply engaged with development for the past 60 years through the work of the AKDN. One of the AKDN's key education programmes is the network of the Aga Khan Academies (AKA). When asked why the AKA opted for the IB curriculum, His Highness says: "we could see several key areas of alignment with the International Baccalaureate. First was in the kind of education we wanted to offer and its underlying purpose. We also needed a curriculum that could help us develop home-grown leaders who are both globally aware and locally rooted, and a framework through which we could immerse our students in a pluralistic learning community."