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Comment on In the News ~ VJC plans to admit Sec 1 students by oranglama

oranglama — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:46:19 +0000

The attd may be a salutary lesson not to tamper with the name of an institution that is "something
more

"Victoria School in Singapore
There are other schools we know
Victoria School is something more
……………"

"http://viweb.freehosting.net/Heritage.htm

Comment on In the News ~ VJC plans to admit Sec 1 students by Victoria Reunite

Victoria Reunite — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:49:01 +0000

It would be useful to learn from the reactions to the HCI and RI merger and address the issues raised so as not be be caught un-AWARE.

Comment on Contributors wanted by Eric

Eric — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:50:13 +0000

The principals of the three schools confirmed in a joint statement that the OVA had approached Cedar to suggest the collaboration, and that Cedar had subsequently sought and received approval from their own school advisory committee and alumni.
Not everything in the proposal was accepted wholesale, said Mr Ho. “We had originally proposed that VS and VJC should merge. But it was felt that we were not ready at this point in time.”

Comment on Contributors wanted by Eric

Eric — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:48:54 +0000

Mr Tng felt that Cedar Girls’ School, also an autonomous school, would be a good fit: “Both schools have a strong sports background, they both emphasise character-building, and they have more or less the same academic calibre of students.”
Mr Ho Kiat Chong, a former VS teacher in the group, said: “People usually associate Cedar
and
Advisory and VS as brother-sister schools unofficially, even before this.”
Mr Tng met Cedar’s principal, Mrs Ou Yang Geok Cheng, in January. “Her only requirement was that the girls should remain in the current Cedar campus for their four years of secondary school before moving on to VJC, and that was fine with us,” he said.
The task force then firmed up the proposal and met VS principal Low Eng Teong, VJC principal Chan Poh Meng and Victorian Advisory Committee chairman Ng Yat Chung on Feb 2. After that, the task force thought it best to leave it to the principals.

Comment on Contributors wanted by Eric

Eric — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:43:33 +0000

3 Sep 2010
The Straits Times
BY JENNANI DURAI
jennanid@sph.com.sg
Victoria School’s IP a long time coming

New Cedar-Victoria programme was down primarily to efforts of 8 men

BEHIND the Cedar-Victoria Integrated Programme (IP) are eight men who took their alma mater’s motto – Nil Sine Labore, or Nothing Without Labour – to heart.
The programme, announced by Education Minister Ng Eng Hen on Wednesday, was a long time coming for this group of mostly old boys and teachers from Victoria School (VS), and it had many detractors along the way. But they stuck to their guns, because they knew from experience that “the Victorian brand of education has merits”, said Mr Vernon Teo, president of the Old Victorians’ Association (OVA) and leader of the group.
After fighting off the idea of turning VS into a co-educational institution, first mooted in 2005, the OVA had to go head to head with Victoria Junior College (VJC) in August last year, after VJC submitted a proposal to start its current IP from Sec 1 instead of Sec 3. The OVA feared that the move would pit VS against VJC, with brighter students bypassing the secondary school altogether.

Comment on In the News ~ VJC plans to admit Sec 1 students by Victoria Reunite

Victoria Reunite — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:25:09 +0000

Reactions to the Raffles Institution Merger and Change of Name

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Always from RI and/or RJC (Students of the pre-merger institutions) http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40893873205

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I am against the Raffles Merger! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=bf3c8884ffe...

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RI~JC http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=bf3c8884ffe...

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Comment on Contributors wanted by oldtime

oldtime — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:37:07 +0000

One of the pre u students fronting the campaign to raise funds for Justin Rozario was Francis Yeo.
Francis was renowned for winning two much coveted State-wide essay writing contests in 1964 and 1965
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article.aspx?ar...
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article.aspx?ar...

Comment on Contributors wanted by oldtime

oldtime — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:25:35 +0000

The Victorian Spirit……..

a 1965 Straits Times report on a drive by VS students to help raise funds for a former Victorian Justin Rozario who was paralysed from the neck downwards after a diving accident. Justin was a champion middle distance runner during his schooldays and was blooming into a great Spore national athlete when he met with the accident. Justin passed away some years later.
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article.aspx?ar...
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article.aspx?ar...

Comment on Contributors wanted by oldtime

oldtime — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:53:43 +0000

Most heartening to come across this posting by an Old Victorian paying tributes to his former teachers in VS, on the ocassion of Teachers' Day

http://timesofmylife.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/rem...

A school is only as good as its teachers, and VS is blessed with having many in its fold over the years.

Comment on In the News ~ VJC plans to admit Sec 1 students by Tyrwhitt-Tan

Tyrwhitt-Tan — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:09:05 +0000

Some info on HCI and RI after merger.

1. Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College. Heard it is some form of compromise that it is named Hwa Chong Institution after merger. Don’t have the details, but it does not matter to Chinese High School as the Chinese name (Hua Qiao Zhong Xue) is retained. HCJC has been quite independent from CHS, much more than VS/VJC relationship.

2. RI and RJC merger was announced very suddenly, a few months before the new calendar year start, without any warning at all. There are quite a no of RJC students who objected to this, but to no avail. Immediately after merger, the public and probably RI itself call the former RJC -> RI(JC). It lasted one year before RJC principal officially announced that there is no RI(JC) and just one RI. But even today, some people still call the Pre-U section of RI -> RJC or RI(JC).

Also, the name “Victoria School and Junior College” is too long and does not sound right.

In time to come, most of the boys in VJC will be from VS, eg 180 from IP (50% of 360 cohort) and 90 from O Levels = 270 total.

The merger school can probably be called Victoria School without any objection from anyone.

There may even be a chance that VS will become a full-IP school if most of the PSLE students entering VS have very high PSLE scores, thus raising the cut-off-point for VS.