Developing educational excellence in Mozambique

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AFD is financing the construction of a school of excellence, the Aga Khan Academy, in the outskirts of the capital city Maputo. The Academy provides high-level primary and secondary education with the goal of training future highly qualified and socially responsible professionals to help Mozambique fulfil its social and economic development ambitions.  The Academy will actively enroll highly gifted and talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds who will be exempt from paying school fees. The students’ curriculum follows the International Baccalaureate’s, which focuses on thinking critically and independently, and learning to enquire with care and logic.The Aga Khan Academy is one of the 240 learning institutions managed by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), which promotes projects in the area of education, rural development, environment, architecture, economic development and civil society strengthening. With funding from AFD, AKDN built a campus with a world-class teaching and learning environment. Set on 90,000 square metres of land, the Aga Khan Academy had 81 students at the end of 2018 – an equal number of boys and girls – across kindergarten to grade 12. It plans to accommodate 750 primary and secondary students by 2026, with 75 graduates per year. A portion of the land on which the development sits will be used to build 90 rental apartments, whose revenue will be used to ensure the Academy’s long term sustainability and to fund future bursaries to students from poorer households.