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Raffles Institution
莱佛士书院(Chinese) Institusi Raffles(Malay) இராஃபிள்ஸ் கல்வி நிலையம்(Tamil)
Address
1 Raffles Institution Lane Singapore 575954
Singapore
Information
Type
Independent
Motto
Auspicium Melioris Aevi(Latin) (Hope of a Better Age)
Founded
5 June 1823; 200 years ago (1823-06-05)
Founder
Stamford Raffles
Sister school
Raffles Girls' School
Chairman
Bey So Khiam [1]
Principal
Aaron Loh[2]
Gender
Boys (Year 1-4) Mixed (Year 5-6)
Enrolment
4,000[3]
Colour(s)
Green Black White
Mascot
Gryphon and eagle
Team name
Team Raffles
Publication
The Rafflesian Times
Yearbook
The Rafflesian
Website
ri.edu.sg
Raffles Institution (RI) is an independent educational institution in Singapore. Founded in 1823, it is the oldest school in the country. It provides secondary education for boys only from Year 1 to Year 4, and pre-university education for both boys and girls in Year 5 and Year 6. Since 2007, RI and its affiliated school Raffles Girls' School have been offering the six-year Raffles Programme, which allows students to skip the Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-Level examinations and proceed to take the Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level examinations at the end of Year 6.
RI is notable for having produced 96 President's Scholars, three presidents, two prime ministers,[4] four speakers of Parliament, several Cabinet ministers and Members of Parliament, as well as many chief executive officers of statutory boards, agencies and state-owned companies.[5] Its alumni body, the Old Rafflesians Association (ORA), includes former Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong, as well as former Presidents Yusof Ishak, Benjamin Sheares and Wee Kim Wee.[6][7][8]
RI has one of the highest admission rates to the elite universities of the world such as the Ivy League and Oxbridge.[9] It had the highest number of admissions to the University of Cambridge, with 48 students receiving offers in the 2022 admissions cycle,[10] while 52 were accepted for Oxford and Cambridge combined in 2021,[11] and 77 in 2022 (2nd highest of all schools).[10]
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^"Principal's Welcome". Raffles Institution. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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^"ISSUU - 2011 School Brochure by Raffles Institution". Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^Honorary Members Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Old Rafflesians' Association, 2005.
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^Ang, Matthias (5 June 2018). "'Raffles' & 'elitism' debate in S'pore is more than 130 years old". Mothership. Archived from the original on 18 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
^ ab"Revealed: The schools which won the highest number of Oxbridge offers". The Telegraph. 13 October 2022. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022.
^Heseltine, Annabel (28 October 2021). "Inside the 'Oxbridge factory' Singapore school… that only costs £160 a month". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021.
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