Raffles Institution (Junior College)
The Year 5-6 section of Raffles Institution (RI) offers the Raffles Programme at pre-university level. RI, the oldest centre of learning in Singapore, is an independent public school founded in 1823 by Sir Stamford Raffles. Its current campus is in Bishan.
Formerly Raffles Junior College (RJC), it merged with Raffles Institution on 1 January 2009, with whom it had shared a common Board of Governors since June 2008. The Principal of the merged institution is Mrs Lim Lai Cheng, who took over in 2007 from Mr Winston James Hodge, who had left the school to assume a position at the Ministry of Education.
To date, Raffles Institution has produced 88 President's Scholars and the bulk of Public Service Commission scholars. It remains the only Singaporean member of the G20 Group of Schools. In the article "Gateway to the Ivy League," published in 2004, the Wall Street Journal named then RJC the "Ivy League Machine." However, more students matriculate into top UK universities like the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, King's College London, Imperial College London, University College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, and others.
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