Adamjee Cantonment College(ACC) (Bengali: ????? ????????????? ????) is located in Dhaka Cantonment, Bangladesh. It is primarily for the primary, lower-secondary, secondary and higher secondary level education for the children of Army personnel stationed in Dhaka Cantonment and is managed by Bangladesh Army officers. It was ranked 1st in 2014 in Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) results in Dhaka division. This college is enriched with its club activities. The institution is under the supervision of the Director of Bangladesh Army Education Corps. ACC was founded by Gul Muhammad Adamjee, an eccentric industrialist. It is now under the command of Principal Brigadier General .
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History
On 16 February 1960, Adamjee Cantonment College started its journey as an English medium school. Gul Muhammad Adamjee, son of the founder of Adamjee Dynasty - Sir Haji Dawood Adamjee, established Adamjee Cantonment School. Begum Gul Muhammad Adamjee laid down the foundation stone in January 1958. The main building was completed in January 1960. The institution was later renamed as Adamjee Cantonment College. This institution was established on the ideology and curricular activities of original renowned British public schools Eton, Harrow and Rugby. The school initially took students into Form-1 through Form-5 (Class 6 to Class 10) modeled upon the British public school system. The motto of this college is to impart education, discipline and morality. It has a flag of navy blue color with the monogram of the college. The original building of the school is now where the present 'Adamjee Cantonment College' stands. The school was separated in 1995 and was made totally an independent institution.
Eminent architect T Abul Hussain Thariani, who is remembered for the design of the National Baitul Mukarram Mosque , planned and designed the premise that was developed by Omar and Sons Company under the supervision of Major General Omrao Khan of the Pakistan Army. The institution started its journey on 16 February 1960 with only four teachers. The principal of the institution was a British educator named G. A, Dolman. The activities of this school started according to the British public school standards. The subsequent principals were J. E. M. Thornhill, also a British educator, Major Mahbub Ali and S. A. Alavi. Through the auspices of the British Council two teachers S. M. Jessel (Mathematics and Science) and J. A. K. Wilson (English) taught here on rotational assignments from the United Kingdom.
Before the liberation period, the college achieved the prestige of being a reputed English Medium institution and one of the best public schools in all Pakistan. After liberation, Bengali became the medium of study. The students appeared at the Matriculation and Intermediate Examinations respectively in 1962 and 1964 for the first time. The Bachelors Course (commonly referred to as graduation or pass course) was introduced in 1972-1973 session. In the session 1996-1997 Masters Course was introduced and in the session 1998-1999 Honours in English, Accounting, Political Science and Economics Course was introduced. Following this, in the session 2004-2005 BBA programme was introduced.
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Curriculum
- Higher Secondary Level HSC
Group -- Science, Humanities & Business Studies
- Graduation Level
BA(Honours) -- English, Economics, Political Science
BCom(Honours) -- Management, Accounting
BBA
- Post Graduation Level
Master of Arts -- English, Economics, Political Science
Master of Commerce -- Management, Accounting
Faculties
The institution has three faculties of Science , Humanities and Business studies under the supervision of three separate Course Co-ordinators.
Faculty of Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Biology
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering and Drawing
Faculty of Arts Humanities
- Department of English
- Department of Bangla
- Department of Economics
- Department of Islamic History & Culture
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Geography
- Department of Islamic studies
Faculty of Commerce
- Department of BBA
- Department of Management
- Department of Marketing
- Department of Accounting
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Secretarial Science and office Management.
Clubs
- Model United Nation Association
- Debate Club
- Quiz Club
- Cultural Club
- Games and Sports Club
- Science Club
- IT Club
- Photography Club
- Social Welfare Club
- Business Club
- Science Club
- Eco Amica Club
- BNCC
- Language Club
Wall Magazines
The wall magazines of different departments are as follows:
- Central Wall magazine of Science Group: Orunodoy
- Central Wall magazine of Humanities Group: Diptiman
- Central Wall magazine of Business studies Group: Uchsash
- Department of Bengali: Abohoman
- Department of English: Rendezvous
- Department of Accounting: Transparency
- Department of BBA: Glocal
- Department of Business Studies: Onnwesha
- Department of Economics: Oikonomia
- Department of Political Science: Uttoron
- Department of Physics: Graviton
- Department of Chemistry: Alchemy
- Department of Biology: Bios
- Department of Geography: Pansia
Campus
Adamjee Cantonment College is located at Dhaka Cantonment.
Library
The Adamjee Cantonment College Library is known as "Vice Principal Mozammel Hossain Library'. With a rare collection of nearly 17000 academic and reference books, the library aims at enhancing creative faculty of the learners. Books for Intermediate, Honours, BBA and post graduate courses are widely available here. The duplex library building offers the young knowledge seekers an access to numerous books, journals and articles. Apart from in-house reading facility, students can get essential books issued for home studies. Readers can easily search their required books with the help of computer. They can also avail quick service from Library management software and barcode reader. Internet facility of the library helps readers to increase their horizon of knowledge. Moreover, the building is well-protected by CCTV. Above all, the air-conditioned library is a centre of creative academic excellence.
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Notable alumni
- Shafi Imam Rumi, Freedom Fighter and Martyr in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
- Akku Chowdhury, Freedom Fighter in the Liberation War and Founder Member of Liberation War Museum.
- Alamgir (actor), Renowned Bangladeshi actor and husband of Runa Laila renowned singer of the Sub-continent.
- Mohammad Khaled Hossain, a Bangladeshi mountaineer and film director.
- Ayman Sadiq, a Bangladeshi educator who founded the 10 Minute School.
- Salman Shah, Iconic Bangladeshi actor.
- Imran Aslam, a Pakistani journalist and President of Geo Television Network, a Unit of the Jang Group of newspapers.
- Mushahid Hussain, Senator, former Federal Government Information Minister and one time Presidential candidate of Pakistan.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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