Global Indian International School Wins Top Global Quality Award

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Singapore’s Global Indian International School Wins Top Global Quality Award 

GIIS, Singapore, Wins “International Asia Pacific Quality Award – Best in Class (2nd highest - Education)”

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Marks the first time any local educational institution has won this prestigious award and the second time that any Singapore organization has been selected for this quality award

Singapore, Thursday 23 July 2009 – Singapore’s Global Indian International School (“GIIS”) announced today that the homegrown school has won a major global quality award, the first time that a local educational institution has secured this accolade. Eleven business and educational organizations from the Pacific Ocean rim were among the “Best Performing Organizations in the World” named in this year’s rankings for the global awards of IAPQA, which was established to encourage world class organizations to improve their quality programmes and continuously enhance value for customers and stakeholders. Companies were assessed based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria which rates organizations for their achievements in quality and performance excellence as a competitive edge. Only organizations that have won quality awards at a national level were eligible to apply for the IAPQA. GIIS’s East Coast campus applied for and won the Performance Excellence Award from the Indian Merchants Chamber in 2008 with a score of 709 out of a maximum 1,000 points. This win qualified GIIS to apply to the APQO for this latest Award. Following an extensive evaluation, by Malcolm Baldrige assessors, GIIS was awarded the IAPQA for the 2009 cycle.

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GIIS is the first local educational institute to receive this prestigious award and only the second-ever IAPQA winner from Singapore (the first being Singapore Technologies Engineering, which won the “Best of its Class Distinction - Big Manufacturing Organization” in 2005). “GIIS is extremely pleased to be the first local educational institution to ever win the IAPQA, which is a very prestigious global award,” said Mr. Atul Temurnikar, Chairman and Trustee of the Global Indian Foundation and of GIIS. “Since our founding in Singapore in 2002, GIIS has endeavored to deliver the highest standards in education to our students. This prestigious award underscores the outstanding accomplishment and performance of GIIS in the area of quality.” “GIIS has invested significant resources in improving quality at all levels of its schools, focusing on the needs of the student and continuous process improvements. We have sought to meet the highest quality benchmarks at national level and have now been named as one of the world’s most quality-conscious educational institutions. This award marks a major milestone in the development of GIIS,” he added. This award, in its ninth year, is administered by the Asia Pacific Quality Organization (“APQO”) – a non-profit organization that serves as an umbrella group that brings together all of the leading quality organizations from countries that border the Pacific Ocean or are considered Asian nations. In April 2008, GIIS started its Global Centre for Education Excellence (“GCEE”) with Mr. B. G. Shenoy as Director. GCEE was instrumental in implementing quality and education excellence initiatives such as Teacher & Student Quality Circles, Safety Audits. The Centre prepared the school for external assessments from Leaders in Quality such as Tata Steel in July 2008 before applying and successfully achieving the Singapore Quality Class certification from SPRING Singapore, for GIIS’ East

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Coast Campus in its first attempt. This enabled GIIS-East Coast to apply for the Indian Merchants Chamber’s Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award which it won, also in its first attempt, in November 2008. The GCEE will continue to work towards spreading the Education Excellence initiative to all schools in the GIIS family. Mr. Temurnikar and Mr. Shenoy will receive the award on behalf of the GIIS at the 15th APQO International Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, which will be held between October 7-10, 2009. Issued on behalf of Global Indian International School by WeR1 Consultants Pte Ltd About Global Indian Foundation: Global Indian Foundation (GIF) is a non-profit educational institution headquartered in Singapore It was started in 2002 with the objective of providing world class education to Indians and global citizens worldwide. GIF has established schools under the “Global Indian International Schools” which are K12 or Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools and Cultural centres . GIF is led and advised by internationally acclaimed & eminent leaders. Please visit www.globalindian.sg for more details.

About Global Indian International School: Global Indian International Schools (GIIS), with 3 campuses in Singapore, are non-profit schools offering Kindergarten to Junior college education including CBSE (India), IGCSE Cambridge (UK), and the International Baccalaureate IBO (Geneva). GIIS has over 17,000 students enrolled & 1500 teachers in its 18 schools in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, India and New Zealand. More information on GIIS schools is available at: www.globalindianschool.org About the Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO) The APQO was founded and organized by National Quality Organizations in Asian and Pacific Rim countries including the American Society for Quality and was incorporated in the Philippines in 1985. It is a non-profit organization formed to be a primary mover for quality and continuous improvement for goods and services and quality of life in the Asia Pacific Region. APQO has several hundred

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National Quality Organizations (Core members), Corporate members, and Individual members. For more information about APQO and the International Asia Pacific Quality Award visit www.apqo.org.

For more information, please contact: Global Indian International School, Singapore Ms. Sarita Sriram, Head, Communications, Global Indian Foundation, Singapore Tel: +65-65083700, Direct: +65-65083713, Fax: +65-65083720 Email: [email protected] WeR1 Consultants Pte Ltd (Singapore) Mr. Yim Jeng Yuh, Mobile: +65-9654 1539, Email: [email protected] Mr. Ng Chung Keat, Mobile: +65-9437 3462, Email: [email protected] Mutual PR (India) Ms. Nidhi Kaul, Mobile: +91-9312784184, Email: [email protected] Ms. Gitimoni, Mobile: +91-9811208362, Email: [email protected]

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