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Raffles Institution (RI), founded in 1823, is the oldest and widely considered to be the most prestigious school in Singapore for pre-tertiary education. It is an independent school, providing secondary education through a boys-only Year 1-4 section and pre-university education through a coeducational Year 5-6 section. Its current campus is in Bishan. Starting in 2007, the school offered the six-year Integrated Programme, which allows students to bypass the GCE O-Levels, and take the GCE A-Levels instead. Known as the Raffles Programme, it is offered jointly with its sister school, Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), or RGS. RI was among the first schools to receive the Ministry of Education's School Excellence Award. It is a member of various academic partnerships and alliances, such as the G20 Schools and The Winchester Network. It also co-founded the Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Raffles | GLOBAL )〕 RI was awarded the Singapore Quality Award in 2011. RI is notable for having produced 90 President's Scholars, 3 out of 7 Presidents, 2 out of 3 Prime Ministers,〔http://issuu.com/ripub/docs/school_brochure_2012〕 including the first elected Prime Minister in Lee Kuan Yew, 4 Speakers of Parliament, 6 out of 18 members of the current Cabinet and 13 CEOs of government-linked statutory boards and agencies.〔http://issuu.com/ripub/docs/2011_school_brochure〕 It is often cited as Singapore's "premier school" and has been recognised as "the top feeder school for the Ivy League universities plus Stanford and MIT, as well as the top feeder school for Oxford University." 〔http://issuu.com/ripub/docs/2011-institution-report〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://web.singnet.com.sg/~kohfamey/on_Raffles%20htm.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.spring.gov.sg/NewsEvents/ITN/2011/Pages/Behind-the-Raffles-Institution-curtains-20111021.aspx )〕 == History == Initially named Singapore Institution, Raffles Institution was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles on 5 June 1823. He had secured a grant from the British East India Company, drafted the curriculum and set up the structure for the board of trustees headed by patron William Wilberforce in order to provide education for the sons of the Company's employees and the children of local leaders in the new British colony of Singapore. The original campus of Raffles Institution was on Bras Basah Road, where Raffles City Shopping Centre now stands. The Bras Basah campus's library building is featured on the $2 paper and polymer bill in the Singapore legal tender.〔("MAS:Currency Services, Currency Information" ), Monetary Authority of Singapore, 2006.〕 In 1844, the school became Singapore's first institution to enroll girls. In 1879, the girls wing of the school was established as Raffles Girls' School (Secondary). Girls from RGS join RI at Year 5 for their pre-university education leading to the GCE A-Levels. The school moved in March 1972 to Grange Road. In 1982 Raffles Junior College (RJC) was established at Paterson Road to take over the school's burgeoning pre-university enrolment. It subsequently moved to Mount Sinai. In 1984, it became one of two schools selected by the MOE to pilot the Gifted Education Programme to cater to intellectually gifted students. In 1990, the school attained independent status and moved to its present campus at Bishan. In 2004, the new Raffles Programme was offered to Secondary 1 to 3 students. It allows RI students to enter RJC and sit for the GCE A-Levels at 18, without having to sit for the GCE O-Levels, giving them more time to engage in enrichment and co-curricular or passion-driven activities. The curriculum serves to "seek to nurture the best and brightest into men and women of scholarship who will be leaders of distinction, committed to excellence and service in the interest of the community and nation." This subsequently led to the merging of RI's GEP and Special/Express streams to form a single Raffles Programme stream, and the establishment of its in-house academic talent development programme, Raffles Academy, catering to exceptionally gifted students via subject-specific pullout classes from Year 3 onwards, in 2007. RJC moved to its new Bishan campus located next to RI at the start of the 2005 school year, after attaining independent status and becoming the first Pre-University Institution in Singapore to be awarded the School Excellence Award. In 2009, RI and RJC re-integrated to form a single institution under the name Raffles Institution to facilitate the running of the Raffles Programme and better align processes and curriculum. RI's alumni body, the Old Rafflesians Association (ORA), includes former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, and three former presidents of Singapore: Yusof bin Ishak, Benjamin Henry Sheares, and Wee Kim Wee.〔(Honorary Members ). Old Rafflesians' Association, 2005.〕 Lee Kuan Yew wrote about his time at RI in the 1930s in ''The Singapore Story'' and this section of the book is available on line.〔 The history of Raffles Institution (1823–2003) is documented in the book ''The Eagle Breeds a Gryphon'', by a former headmaster, Eugene Wijeysingha. The latest edition includes events up to 2003.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raffles Institution」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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