In October 2018, AKA Hyderabad signed an MoU with the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society for joint initiatives on teacher training and recruiting gifted students for scholarship opportunities.
The two month-long inaugural Aga Khan Academies exchange programme came to a close just before the semester ended in December 2018, allowing for returning students to reflect, relive and readjust.
Advait Surana and Aman Nurani of grade 12 were awarded IE University’s Venture Lab award for the best ‘junior business plan’ and won Rs.50,000 in prize money, as well as a scholarship to study any programme of their choice from IE University, Spain.
As a part of the unit on autobiographical writing and research focusing on the drama industry, our PYP and MYP students were privileged to receive a visit from the internationally renowned Mozambican actress Lucrecia Paco.
Students joined numerous people from across Mombasa in late October 2018 to march through the streets in the 'Walk to Freedom' aimed at raising awareness on human trafficking.
15 students from AKA Mombasa have exchanged places with their grade 9 counterparts from AKA Hyderabad. Find out more about the students' initial reactions within the larger framework of what the programme hopes to accomplish.
The Aga Khan Academies are partnering with other institutions to achieve the goal of developing high quality teachers locally. One such partnership is with the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada.
The University of British Columbia, a partner of the Aga Khan Academies, will award an honorary degree to His Highness the Aga Khan on Friday, 19 October.