Jhenaidah Cadet College

Jhenidah Cadet College (JCC) is an English version military boarding school, similar to West Point Military Academy, located in the outskirts of Jhenidah in Bangladesh. It is one of twelve cadet colleges of Bangladesh. It has departments of Science and Humanities

Overview
Jhenidah Cadet College is one of the twelve (12) specialized residential public schools of the country. The college was established on 18 October 1963, with the first intake in 1964. It is the second cadet college among all Cadet Colleges in terms of Seniority. It is located by the side of Jhenidah-Kustia High Way, two kilometers away to the north of Jhenidah town. The campus has an area of 103 acres (42 hectare).

Motto, colors and flag
Its motto is "The Learned are Judicious", the college color is bottle green. The college flag has the three colors of the Armed Forces and bottle green as the background.

Houses
They are named after three battles in the history of Islam.
 * Badr House: color green, motto "Ever Radiant in Deed".
 * Khaiber House: color blue, motto "Austere Devotion to Work"
 * Hunain House: color red, motto "Concentration in Meditation"

Admission
Students are admitted in class VII (7th Grade) at the ages 11 to 14 years. The selection process is rigorous, with a written exam, viva and medical tests.The selected top 50 students will study till class XII (Higher Secondary).

Cadet college is a fully residential school. Cadets get four vacations of total 90 days in a year called term break.

College uniform
All students (cadets) wear a uniform similar to cadet officers in a military academy in academic hours, shorts sleeves in afternoon games and sports, and long sleeves with tie during evening activities. There are some variations in the uniform worn by cadets in authority.

Members of the teaching staff wear a form of school dress when teaching.

Infrastructure
There is a large academic building where the cadets do their classes and study during prep time. Daily five times meals are served in the college dining hall which has a capacity of 300 cadets. Usually cadets say their Magrib and Jumma prayer in the college mosque. All officials of the college live in the college premises. The principal has a two storyed house, while the vice principal, adjutant, medical officer, teachers all have a villa each.

For sport there are five basketball, seven volleyball, five football, two cricket, one hockey, one tennis, one swimming pond and an athletics ground. The playground is a grassy area in the center of the college. Playing any of the above games is compulsory in the afternoon.

There is a dairy firm to serve pure dairy product for the cadets. A hospital, bank, post office, barber, tailor shop, a workshop serve the utilities for the cadets. Cadets have a mandatory medical checkup at the start and end of every term. Cadets have an auditorium for cultural purposes, and a library; in addition, the cadet have language club, computer lab and multimedia classes.

Administration

 * Principal: A Lieutenant Colonel from the Bangladesh Army [MD Abdul Bari Mia, Acting Principal]
 * Vice-principal: A senior faculty member [MD Abdul Bari Mia]
 * Adjutant: A major from the Bangladesh Army [Maj. Raihan]
 * College Prefect: Selected by college authority [Cadet Rafsan]

Clubs and societies

 * Bangla Debate Club
 * English Debate Club
 * GK and Current Affairs Club
 * Quranic Society
 * Computer Club
 * Bangla Literary and Cultural Society
 * English Society
 * Geography Society
 * Hiking Club
 * Photography Club
 * Biology Club
 * Natural Study Club
 * Physics Club
 * Chemistry Club

Academic system
Cadets are enrolled in the seventh grade. They continue their study for six years. The Higher Secondary Certificate(HSC) is the final examination to pass. Each class generally has fifty cadets divided in two sections.

The Secondary School Certificate(SSC) and the Higher Secondary Certificate(HSC) examinations are administered under direct control of the National Board of Education of Bangladesh. A calendar year is divided into three terms. The annual parade, physical training (PT), games and sports and cultural shows are a part of the academic system, and every cadet takes part in them. From 2003 all the cadet colleges were converted to the English version of the National curriculum. Cadets are taken on study tours every year.

Sports and physical activities
Sports and physical activities Students participate in basketball, volleyball, soccer, tennis, cricket, field hockey, squash, rugby, shooting, swimming and athletics. They also participate in annual events like cross country marathon and obstacle courses.

Cultural activities
Students participate in rhetoric competitions like extempore speech, debate, music, poetry recitation, current affairs display, wall magazines publications for special days and cultural events like music and drama. The school's debate team competes with graduate and post-graduate level schools in National Television Debates.

Prominent ex-cadets

 * Shah M. Faruque, Molecular Biologist at ICDDR,B
 * Munshi Faiz, Bangladesh High Commissioner/Ambassador to Singapore/China
 * Azizul Haque, Bangladesh Ambassador to Sweden, Greece
 * Shamim Ahsan, Bangladesh Ambassador to Iran, Brunei
 * Iqbal Quadir, founder, Grameen Phone, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Shahidul Islam, Bangladesh Ambassador to South Korea
 * Tauquir Ahmed, actor and National Award winner Film Director
 * Shamim Hasan Sarkar-Actor,Singer,Drummer