Pabna Cadet College, is a residential military high school, partly financed by the Bangladesh Army, located at Jalalpur, east of Pabna town, Bangladesh.

History

Pabna Cadet College was one of six cadet colleges set up in a second wave (1979-1983) after the initial four were established between 1958 and 1964, during the Pakistan era. It was created on 7 August 1981 by converting Pabna Residential Model College. It started with 170 boys of the residential school in four classes. As of 2022, the cadet college boards 320 boys, between the ages of 12 and 18, in six classes from class VII to XII.

Campus

The cadet college is located on 30 acres on the north side of the Dhaka-Pabna highway at the village of Jalalpur in Pabna Sadar Upazila, about 10 km east of Pabna. Within the campus are a three storey academic block, student housing, a dining hall and adjacent canteen, and Bir Sreshtha Nur Muhammad Hospital, named after Bir Sreshtho Lance Naik Nur Mohammad Sheikh.

Administration

The Bangladesh Army provides some of the funding for cadet colleges, administers them, and runs them on a military model. The school is headed by a principal, appointed by the Adjutant General's branch of the Bangladesh Army. Other key administrators are a vice principal, an adjutant (an army major), and a medical officer (a captain/major from the Army Medical Corps).

Notable alumni

Cadet colleges were designed to be feeder schools for the officer academies of the armed forces, but nowadays they are no longer reserved for students planning to pursue a career in the military.