CIDER International School

CIDER International School is an English medium school in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

CIDER International School
সাইডার ইন্টারন্যাশনাল স্কুল
Location
53 A Techno Cider International School Rd

Chittagong

Bangladesh
Coordinates22.3733°N 91.8125°E / 22.3733; 91.8125
Information
Established1997 (1997)
Area trusteeRabiul Hasan, Lion Mokhlesur Rahman, Tiger Nader Khan
ChairmanNader Khan
PrincipalAbal Chandra Tripathi
GradesNursery to XII
Enrollment3,000 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).

Organisation

CIDE, conducts its academic activities on its own campus on six acres of land. The school is coeducational, with approximately 1000 students playing sports. There has been a plant to build a swimming pool since 2015 but due to a lack of funds.

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] Notable alumni also includes Dr. Yasir Bin Baqui and Dr. Yamin Bin Baqui who completed their PhD from the University of Cambridge on aerospace engineering.[6] Prior to that, they had also studied at MIT, Harvard and NUS.[7]

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References
  1. "The journey till now". CIDER International School. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  2. "Home". CIDER International School - The Best English Medium School in Chattogram/chittagong. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  3. 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.
  4. Shuprovo Arko, Azmin Azra n (12 March 2016). "The extraordinary achievers". The Daily Star. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  5. "Mayisha Sultana: uses statistics to probe the human genome". Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  6. "চট্টগ্রামের নার্চার হাসপাতালে সেবা পাবেন করোনা রোগীরা". প্রথম আলো (in Bengali). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  7. "Schools-The Foundation Builders". archive.thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2020-06-29.


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