Townsville Institute was one of the four original centralised institutes (CI) in Singapore and one of the pre-university centres in Singapore that offers a three-year curriculum

Curriculum

See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...

 leading to the Singapore Cambridge (UCLES) General Certificate of Education

General Certificate of Education

The General Certificate of Education or GCE is an academic qualification that examination boards in the United Kingdom and a few of the Commonwealth countries, notably Sri Lanka, confer to students. The GCE traditionally comprised two levels: the Ordinary Level and the Advanced Level...

 Advanced Level examination.

The centralised institute was located at Margaret Drive in Queenstown

Queenstown, Singapore

Queenstown1 is one of the early housing estates in Singapore, built before Toa Payoh and Ang Mo Kio, and was a test bed for much of Singapore's public housing...

. Due to declining number of students, the institute was forced to close. The building now houses the NIE

NIE

NIE or Nie may mean:* Nie , a Chinese family name**Nie Er, Chinese composer**Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Marshal*NIE , a Polish weekly magazine by Jerzy Urban...

 Townsville campus.

See also

• Education in Singapore
  Education in Singapore
  Education in Singapore is managed by the Ministry of Education , which controls the development and administration of state schools receiving government funding, but also has an advisory and supervisory role in respect of private schools...
  
  
• List of schools in Singapore
• Millennia Institute
  Millennia Institute
  Millennia Institute is the only Centralised Institute in Singapore.MI was established on 3 January 2004, to conglomerate the sparsely organised three-year pre-university institutes into a single entity...
  
  
• Seletar Institute
  Seletar Institute
  Seletar Institute was one of the four original centralised institutes in Singapore and one of the pre-university centres in Singapore that offers a three-year curriculum leading to the Singapore Cambridge General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examination.-History:SI was established as...