Viqarunnisa Noon School

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Viqarunnisa Noon School, is a girls school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has about 2000 students. It has interesting links with the history of the entire Indian subcontinent.

1 History
2 Founder
3 Today
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

[edit] History

Viqarunnisa Noon School (also known as Vic, Vicky or VNS) was established in 1952 at New Bailey Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has since expanded to seven branches in the city, all maintaining a morning and day shift, at Dhanmondi, Azimpur, Bashundhara and at other locations in Dhaka. The School has both English and Bengali languages as medium of instruction for their students.

The school is recognized by the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board in Bangladesh. It was declared the best school in recognition of the high percentage of successful candidates in various university examinations.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Founder

It was founded by Begum Viqar-un-Nisa Noon, who was Austrian by birth, English by upbringing, and Indian by taste.^{[citation needed]} She was married twice and both times to Indian men.^{[citation needed]} In 1945 she married Sir Feroz Khan Noon who was the Indian High Commissioner in England. She later 'muslimized' her name Victoria to 'Viqar-un-nisa' which is essentially nonsensical.^{[citation needed]}

Feroz Khan Noon later became the first Governor of East Pakistan and ultimately the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1957. The Noons did a lot of social work and Viqarunnisa Noon School was one of their projects. There is also a Noon Educational Foundation that funds Pakistani students to study in Oxford and Cambridge.

[edit] Today

VNS kept it's name when Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation in 1971. Now it is one of the top rated high schools in Dhaka. Consequently, admission is highly competitive. There are rumors about third graders taking the admission test for first grade. There is also a micro-industry of admission test prep and tutoring exclusively for VNS.

Viqarunnisa has a debating club, science club, environment club, cultural club, computer club etc for its students. Every year the clubs organise many festivals in the campus.