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Madrasahs in Singapore are full-time, religious institutions that offer a pedagogical mix of Islamic religious education and secular education in their curricula.While the Arabic term 'madrasah' literally translates to 'school', whether religious or secular, the term 'madrasah' is legally and colloquially defined in Singapore today as an 'Islamic religious school'.
Raffles Girls' School (RGS) is an independent girls' secondary school located in Braddell, Singapore. [5] Established in 1879, it is one of the oldest schools in Singapore. RGS, together with its affiliated school Raffles Institution, offers a six-year Raffles Programme, [6] which allows students to skip the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examinations and proceed to take the Singapore ...
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.
St. Margaret's School (Secondary) (SMSS) is a government-aided autonomous girls' secondary school in Bukit Timah,in central Singapore, under the purview of the Anglican Diocese of Singapore. It is the first girls' school in Singapore and often regarded as the oldest existing girls' school in Southeast Asia.
The Government of Singapore consists of several departments, known as ministries and statutory boards in Singapore. Ministries are led by a member of the Cabinet and deal with state matters that require direct political oversight.
Singapore, [e] officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.It is about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the ...
Pei Hwa Public School along Yio Chu Kang Road was founded in 1934 as Hwa Keow School by Ang Gong Pin, who felt a need for a school in proximity to their villages because most schools were located in the cities and not everyone had the means to send their children to and from the city.
At the end of 1960, Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan bought a 60,000 square feet adjacent piece of land at a cost of $90,000 to construct a secondary school wing. When Nan Chiau Girls’ High was being reconstructed, the school's students were housed in the newly built Kong Hwa Wing.