Raffles Campus pursues passion for holistic education

While classrooms develop academic excellence, sports and the arts cultivate leadership, confidence and creativity. This holistic approach defines Raffles Campus, an organisation specialising in the management and operation of international schools for children two to 18 years old.

Raffles Campus is the brainchild of chairman and CEO Ng Boon Yew. An accountant by profession, Ng fulfilled his lifelong passion for teaching after a friend asked him to establish an international school in Dubai in 2005.

"We infused the proven and systematic Cambridge-based Singaporean educational system into the international curriculum," Ng says. "We're creating global citizens who can cope with the cultural diversity of the international world."

In partnership with United Malayan Land, Raffles Campus will open its Excelsior International School in Iskandar, Malaysia next month. The 20-acre facility will feature an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a 400-metre all-weather running track and a Fifa 2-star certified artificial turf soccer field. The school also has tennis courts, a 500-seat auditorium, art laboratories and studios for drama and dance.

Raffles Campus is also breaking ground on the mainland with Ningbo Binhai Raffles International Kindergarten. Offering international curricula for children from Nursery 1 to Kindergarten 2, the school will offer similar advanced features, including hi-tech classrooms, wading pool, and music and drama rooms.

"Our people breathe soul into our facilities," Ng says. "With the appropriate 'lifeware', we deliver state-of-the-art holistic education that will prepare children to meet the challenges of the 21st century."