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Raffles Scholarship Series

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Raffles Institution (RI) is one of the leading secondary schools in Singapore, with a time-honoured tradition of welcoming highly talented students from diverse backgrounds. 

To keep RI open and welcoming to all deserving students from all walks of life, we partnered RI to design the Raffles Scholarship Series, an initiative to help aspiring students from disadvantaged backgrounds enrol in RI and access the exposure and developmental opportunities offered through a Rafflesian education.  

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In the longer term, we hope that this initiative will help to maintain RI as an inclusive and socially diverse institution, with a vibrant learning environment for talented youths from all walks of life.  

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Since 2015, Quantedge Foundation has co-funded the Raffles Scholarship Series to increase the socio-economic diversity of the student population in RI and support students from financially needy backgrounds. Complementing the Ministry of Education’s Independent School Bursary, the Raffles Scholarship Series is an integrated needs-based merit scholarship programme awarded at Primary 5, right up to Year 6. 
 
We have worked closely with RI to design, co-fund and monitor the effectiveness of the Raffles Scholarship Series since its inception in 2015. Under this initiative,
  • Primary 5 and 6 students from lower-income households who have done well in their studies may receive a scholarship award of $1,000, as well as mentoring by RI students who serve as their role models. 
  • All Year 1 to Year 6 RI students with demonstrated financial need (i.e. with gross monthly household income of $4,000 and below) receive an additional scholarship award of up to $2,000, in addition to the school fee support and UPLIFT scholarship they receive from the Ministry of Education. This enables them to participate fully in the whole range of developmental programmes, co-curricular activities and exposure trips at RI, together with their schoolmates. 

The initiative seeks to ensure that students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds do not forgo an opportunity at pursuing a Rafflesian education due to financial considerations or concerns that they would not fit in, and once enrolled, are able to participate fully in the whole range of activities along with their schoolmates.
Outcomes:
Since 2015, we have supported more than 2600 students through the Raffles Scholarship Series, including 412 students from 97 primary schools.

We are also heartened that since 2019, the Ministry of Education has introduced a similar but expanded scheme, the UPLIFT Scholarship, to help outstanding students from lower-income families pursue their dreams in any independent school in Singapore. ​

​Our Partners:
  • Raffles Institution

Find out more: 
  • Raffles Institution - Fees and Financial Aid
  • Raffles Scholarship Series in the news

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  • Home
  • WHO WE ARE
    • About Quantedge Foundation
    • Our Team
    • Governance & Policies
  • What We Do
    • Overview
    • In Singapore >
      • The Early Years (0-6y) >
        • Circle of Care
      • The Growing Years (7-16y) >
        • Raffles Scholarship Series
        • Tak Takut Kids Club
        • =DREAMS
        • Past Programmes Supported >
          • Gaining STEAM! Programme
          • Infinity Programme
          • Keeping Learning Alive
          • Integrated Care Programme
          • Study Buddy @ Marsiling ComLink
      • The Blossoming Years (17-25y) >
        • University Access
        • NUS Bursary Funds
      • The Community >
        • Impact Bridging Funding ​for Employment Support Programme
        • Storytellers Initiative
        • Past Programmes Supported >
          • NCSS-Supported Pilot Initiatives
          • 15Shorts
          • UNTEACHABLE
    • Internationally >
      • Global Health and Development >
        • COVAX
        • Sun-in-a-Box
        • The Accelerate Collective by UBS Optimus Foundation
        • Stunting Centre of Excellence by 1000 Days Fund
        • Regional Early Childhood Development Research
        • Healthcare Pooled Fund by AVPN
      • Climate Change >
        • NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions
        • The APC Climate Collective
        • The Climate Collective by UBS Optimus Foundation
        • Garden To Forest Programme by Health In Harmony
        • Landscape Monitoring Initiative by WRI Indonesia
        • Southeast Asia Framework for Ocean Action in Mitigation by Climateworks Centre
      • Scholarships >
        • UC Berkeley Quantedge Presidential Chair in Economics
        • Penn Quantedge Scholarship
        • CDS Scholars Fund
        • University of Cambridge
  • Voices
  • Publications & Newsroom
  • Contact Us