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PRESS RELEASE (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1100 hours 23 July 2009)

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)”
 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.

SINGAPORE - MALAYSIA - JAPAN - INDIA - THAILAND - VIETNAM - NEW ZEALAND

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: sarita@sg.globalindianschool.org

WeR1 Consultants Pte Ltd (Singapore)

Mr. Yim Jeng Yuh, Mobile: +65-9654 1539, Email: yimjy@wer1.net
Mr. Ng Chung Keat, Mobile: +65-9437 3462, Email: ngck@wer1.net

Mutual PR (India)
Ms. Nidhi Kaul, Mobile: +91-9312784184, Email: nidhi@mutualpr.com
Ms. Gitimoni, Mobile: +91-9811208362, Email: Gitimoni@mutualpr.com

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