AKDN (Aga Khan Development Network) and IB (International Baccalaureate) signs Memorandum of Understanding on improving access to Quality Education in developing world

AKDN (Aga Khan Development Network) and IB (International Baccalaureate) signs Memorandum of Understanding on improving access to Quality Education in developing world

Gouvieux, France, Thursday, 28th October 2010 – The Aga Khan Development Network Foundation (AKDN Foundation) and the International Baccalaureate (IB) agreed today to intensify joint efforts to broaden access to quality education for students across the developing world and provide richer and more global perspectives to those in the industrialised world.

The Memorandum was signed by Princess Zahra Aga Khan, Head of AKDN’s Social Welfare Department, and by Jeff Beard, Director General of the IB. His Highness the Aga Khan, founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, and Carol Bellamy, Chair of the IB Board of Governors, were present at the signing.

Read more at: http://www.akdn.org/Content/1021/
Signing Ceremony Photographs: http://www.akdn.org/photos_show.asp?Sid=169

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