CIDER International School
CIDER International School is an English medium school in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
CIDER International School সাইডার ইন্টারন্যাশনাল স্কুল | |
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Location | |
53A, Nalapara I/A Bangladesh | |
Coordinates | 22.3733°N 91.8125°E |
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Established | 1997 |
Area trustee | Rabiul Hasan, Lion Mokhlesur Rahman, Lion Nader Khan |
Chairman | Nader Khan |
Principal | Abal Chandra Tripathi |
Grades | Nursery to XII |
Enrollment | 3,000 students |
History
CIDER International School was established in 1997 by a group of social activists. It was initially to be part of a larger movement, the Chittagong Institute for Development of Education and Research (CIDER). Some say CIDER is one of the best but most say worst English medium school in Chittagong.
Organisation
CIDER, conducts its academic activities on its own campus on 6 acres of land. The school is coeducational, with approximately 1000 students playing sports.And we are planning to also build a swimming pool since 2015 but due to a lack of funds all we could make was the boundaries of the pool and nothing else.
studentson its roll, studying up to A-Level.
Curriculum
The institution offers two curricula: the British curriculum, under Cambridge International Examinations, and the English-language version of the national curriculum.[1]
Affiliations
CIDER is affiliated with the University of Cambridge International Examinations. It is also affiliated with Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Chittagong which endorses the National Curriculum in its streams. [2]
Achievements
The school won the national 2008 Aktel Debate Championship for English medium schools.[3] In 2016, Mayisha Mahdiya Sultana of Cider achieved the highest grades in O and A level exams in the entire Bangladesh to date.[4] Following her studies at CIDER, she attended Princeton University and the University of Oxford[5].
References
- "The journey till now". CIDER International School. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Home". CIDER International School - The Best English Medium School in Chattogram/chittagong. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- Barua, Dwaipayan (25 May 2008). "Aktel Debate Championship '08 NSU - Cider Int'l School come out winners". Star Campus. The Daily Star. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- Shuprovo Arko, Azmin Azra n (12 March 2016). "The extraordinary achievers". The Daily Star. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- "Mayisha Sultana: uses statistics to probe the human genome". Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. Retrieved 2020-06-24.