Journal of Eurasian Studies

October-December 2012 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume IV., Issue 4.
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Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) initiated a major educational project in Tajikistan which aims the
balanced development of citizens through the teaching of ethics and knowledge.
The program utilizes the existing educational facilities for implementing its program. The curriculum
package includes textbooks, activity books, and guides for teachers and parents. The IIS has also
provided scholarships to prepare the foundational skills of a great number of Central Asian students in
humanities and Islamic studies. The students can then receive graduate degrees in various western
universities.
The Aga Khan Education Fund has enabled the strengthening of national human resources in English
and market economies. Institutions of higher education in Tajikistan have been provided with
instructions and materials to enable them to increase their capacity. In the next phase of economic
programme, the Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) is organizing education in microeconomics and
practical business skills through courses using the case study methodology. In case of the English
language programme, the materials provided to the participating institutions have been supplemented
by modern, computer-based language laboratories supplied by AKES and installed in five institutions.
The Tajik Pedagogical University Dushanbe, Kolub State University, and Khurog State University.
Courses for selected faculties were especially designed at Durham University for instructors of the
English Language and at the London School of Economics, for teachers of Economics. Bridging cultural,
linguistic and pedagogical divides, the International Academic Partnership (IAP) between AKES,
Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the Schule Schloss Salem in Salem, Germany and AKU-
IED permits an innovative variety of mutually enriching exchanges amongst these institutions.
Exchanges of teachers, enhanced library systems and teaching of science and mathematics in the AKES
school system aside, the IAP has been able to bring AKES experience into the development of a Global
Economics Curriculum, an Islamic Cultural Studies Curriculum at Phillips Academy, and an African
Studies Institute, as well as the launch of a Global Learning Network. The Network links classrooms
across the world so that students and teachers can understand and share their own and each other’s
cultures.
Curriculum of education
Aga Khan in Tajikistan like in other Central Asian republics cultivated a sense to propagate education
on rational lines and it strove to make Tajik stock liable to the market demands of the world. For such
purpose Aga Khan introduced such changes in the educational curriculum that ensures a good prospect
for the Tajik education.
The Aga Khan Lycée follows the Tajik National State Curriculum from primary to higher secondary
level (Grades 1 st –11 th ). The Lycée enriched the curriculum with additional lessons, quality resources,
smaller class sizes, lessons from other curricula in the teaching of the English language, information
technology, and economics. Its aim is to make the Tajik education viable both globally and locally.
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