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2 unusual facts about Raffles Institution


DPS International School Singapore

On a visit to India, Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister of Education and Second Minister for Finance, visited DPS Schools in India and this has resulted in the decision to conduct exchange programme with Singaporean schools such as Raffles Institution, Bukit Panjang Government High School, etc.

Time for a Tiger

The action centres on the vicissitudes of Victor Crabbe, a history teacher at an elite school for all the peninsula's ethnic groups – Malay, Chinese and Indian the Mansor School, in Kuala Hantu (modelled on the Malay College at Kuala Kangsar, Perak and Raffles Institution, Singapore).


Andy Ong

Ong was educated at Raffles Institution, St Andrew's Junior College and the National University of Singapore.

Edmund W. Barker

Barker was educated at Serangoon English School and Raffles Institution, before going on to Raffles College (a predecessor institution of the present-day National University of Singapore) in 1940.

Lee Yock Suan

Lee was educated at Queenstown Secondary Technical School and Raffles Institution, before being awarded a President's Scholarship to study at Imperial College London where he completed a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering.


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