Articles of Interest

What does it take to improve an education system? The Professional Development Centres at the Aga Khan Academies are determining the answer to this question – one teacher at a time. To date, professional development programmes at the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa have reached 1,688 teachers in the coastal areas of Kenya and, through them, more than 200,000 students – changing the way teachers teach and students learn.

The opening of the second Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad last year marked the first step in establishing a network of schools with an exceptional purpose: an integrated, interconnected network of high-quality residential schools forming a global learning community across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. These will be places where students of merit from all backgrounds, regardless of their family's ability to pay, work and live together enjoying a rigorous academic and leadership experience. To realise this unique vision necessitates a new approach to pedagogy, education, and learning, bringing challenges but also a whole new world of opportunity.