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, four
speakers of Parliament, several
Cabinet
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Furniture
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ministers and Members of Parliament, as well as many chief executive officers of
statutory boards, agencies and state-owned companies. 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
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Sheares retired in 1960 and was in private pract ...
and
Wee Kim Wee.
RI has one of the highest admission rates to the elite universities of the world such as the
Ivy League and
Oxbridge
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