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The former Raffles College, the site of SMU's first campus. In 1997, the Government of Singapore began considering setting up a third university in Singapore. Ho Kwon Ping, a Singaporean business entrepreneur, was appointed to chair the task-force which determined that the new institution would follow the American university system featuring a more flexible broad-based education.
The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore. Established by the Ministry of Education , it was formerly known as Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB).
SJI International comprises an Elementary School (roll 640) and a High School (roll 860) on one campus. IB Diploma results are very high (37.60% of students scored between 40 and 45 points in 2013) and the overall pass rate was 99.30% (world average 80.40%).
The oldest university in Singapore is the National University of Singapore, which was established in its current form in 1980, but has a history in tertiary education dating back to 1905. [1] The university along with the Nanyang Technological University are research intensive and rank the highest in global university ranking publications.
ITE College East (ITECE) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore. It is one of the Institute of Technical Education 's three colleges under the "One ITE System, Three Colleges" Governance and Education Model.
Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore.. Established in 1963 by the Ngee Ann Kongsi, NP is renowned for its business programmes and central focus on entrepreneurship education.
Junior colleges (JC) are pre-university institutions in Singapore that offer two-year pre-university courses that leads to either the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level (A-Level) or the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB - offered by only Anglo-Chinese School, School of the Arts, Singapore Sports School, and St. Joseph’s Institution). [1]
The Secondary School Gifted Education Programme was discontinued at the end of 2008 as more students take the Integrated Programme (IP); [38] this has been replaced by a "School-Based Gifted Education" programme. [35] Pupils enter the programme through a series of tests at Primary 3, which will identify the top 1% of the student population.