Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution is an independent educational institution in Singapore, founded in 1823 and one of the oldest schools 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 it and its affiliated Raffles Girls' School have offered the six-year Raffles Programme, which lets students skip the Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-Level examinations and proceed directly to the A-Level examinations. Its alumni include 96 President's Scholars, three presidents and four prime ministers of Singapore, among them former prime ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong. Raffles Institution has one of the highest admission rates to top universities such as the Ivy League and Oxbridge, and is a member of academic partnerships including the G30 Schools and the Winchester Network, and co-founded the Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools.