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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,〔''"Raffles JC, RI looking into merger"'', Sandra Davie, The Straits Times, 4 January 2008〕 with whom it had shared a common Board of Governors since June 2008.〔(Welcome to Raffles Junior College Homepage )〕 The first Principal of the merged institution was 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.〔''"Top schools get fresh faces at the hemp"'', Maria Almenmoan; Diana Othman, The Straits Times, 11 October 2007〕 The current Principal of Raffles Institution is Mr Chan Poh Meng, who took over in 2014 from Mrs Lim Lai Cheng. To date, Raffles Institution has produced 94 President's Scholars and the bulk of Public Service Commission scholars. It remains the only Singaporean member of the G20 Group of Schools. RI 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〕 In the article "Gateway to the Ivy League," the Wall Street Journal named then RJC the "Ivy League Machine." 〔http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2004/05/raffles_junior_.html〕 However, more students matriculate into top UK universities such as Cambridge University, London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University, University College London, King's College London, and Imperial College London (among others). ==History== In 1982, Raffles Institution’s pre-university section was transferred to a temporary campus at Paterson Road. There, Raffles Junior College was established to offer the GCE A Level curriculum. It was the first junior college to be established with both JC1 and JC2 students, with the JC2 students having just completed their first in pre-university year in RI. RJC then moved to Mt Sinai Road in 1984 which provided better facilities and a larger site to cater to junior college education. 21 years later, the college held its moving ceremony on 29 December 2004 from its previous Mount Sinai campus to Bishan, adjacent to the current Year 1-4 campus. Students took a chartered MRT train to Bishan and walked to their new campus, which was officially opened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 8 April 2006, in conjunction with the college's 25th anniversary celebrations. On 1 January 2005, the college became an independent institution. In the same year, RJC became the first junior college to be awarded the School Excellence Award, the highest award in the MOE Masterplan of Awards. 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 (Junior College)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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