Next week, the Aga Khan Foundation – in partnership with the Kyrgyz Ministry of Education and Science – are delighted to welcome 250 education system stakeholders to the capital city of Bishkek in the Kyrgyz Republic from 11-13 June for the Schools2030…
In these unprecedented times, how to safeguard and advance the future of learning is the important topic that the Transforming Education Summit (TES) – UNESCO’s much anticipated side event at UNGA 2022 – seeks to address. This important global convening…
Following the inaugural cycle in 2019, this year – after a brief hiatus due to COVID-19 – the Aga Khan Foundation hosted its second illuminate event. Around 40 students between the ages of 15 and 16 attended this year’s event…
The AKF-led Schools2030 programme is delighted to globally launch the free, open-source HCD Toolkit, which aims to equip educators across 1000 schools with foundational design skills and tools to amplify their work & improve the learning outcomes of students. To…
Happy International Day of Education! Last year was tough for everyone, with education being one of the hardest hit sectors. For many young girls around the world, like Laila, the hard-won right to schooling was not something easily put aside.…
On 15th October 2020, countries around the world came together – from community level through to those in high office – to push for increased action and future investment in better handwashing, hygiene and sanitation facilities for the world’s poorest…
Spanning nearly two decades, the unique design partnership between Pritzker Prize winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki and the Aga Khan Development Network has resulted in a trilogy of signature buildings – The Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat (Ottawa, Canada), the…
Due to COVID-19 and the accompanying lockdown measures, children around the world have been unable to go to school, in some countries for as long as six months. The Aga Khan Foundation and the Aga Khan Education Services have been…
AKF was delighted to participate in this year’s CogX; one of the world’s leading technology summits. Usually taking place in London’s King’s Cross, this year CogX (8-10 June) took its summit online for the biggest, most inclusive and forward-thinking online…
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our working and personal lives like no other event in recent memory. An unprecedented level of research over the past five months has advanced knowledge of the disease, but many uncertainties remain.