Hwa Chong Junior College
| Hwa Chong Junior College 华中初级学院 Maktab Rendah Hwa Chong |
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661 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 269734 Singapore |
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| Coordinates | 1°19′36″N 103°48′13″E / 1.32654°N 103.803491°ECoordinates: 1°19′36″N 103°48′13″E / 1.32654°N 103.803491°E |
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| Type | Independent Junior College |
| Motto |
Towards Progress 力求进步 |
| Established | 1974 |
| Status | Current College section of Hwa Chong Institution |
| Closed | 1 January 2005 |
| Colour(s) | Red, Yellow |
| Vision | Live with Passion, Lead with Compassion |
The former Hwa Chong Junior College (HCJC) (Chinese: 华中初级学院) was a junior college in Singapore offering pre-university education. The college was founded in 1974 and was merged into The Chinese High School on 1 January 2005 to form the integrated Hwa Chong Institution.
Hwa Chong Junior College is the second junior college, and the first government-aided junior college to be established in Singapore, after National Junior College. In 1970, the then Minister for Education Ong Pang Boon approached a group of Chinese community leaders from the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) to discuss establishing ten junior colleges to replace the pre-university classes in the senior high sections of Singapore's secondary schools. Mr Tan Kong Choon, a prominent businessman and the managing director of the board of The Chinese High School was appointed to oversee the project, estimated to cost S$2.2 million of which half of the total funds is to be funded by SCCCI.
After meetings and discussions, the Chinese community leaders declared to the government that due to financial constraints, they were able to raise sufficient funds for constructing only two of the originally intended ten junior colleges. Subsequently, the management board of The Chinese High School creased the school's pre-university classes in preparation for the building of a new junior college. In 1974, Hwa Chong Junior College was established at the Bukit Timah Road campus of The Chinese High School, and was run by the same management board as the high school. The junior college's name was an abbreviation of the high school's Chinese name, to mark the relationship between the two schools.
On 8 May 1987, Hwa Chong Junior College moved out of its premises at Bukit Timah Road due to structural problems with the building. Lessons were held temporarily at Ngee Ann Polytechnic and in Woodlands from May to December 1987. The college shifted to Bukit Batok Street 34 (present-day site of Swiss Cottage Secondary School and St. Anthony's Primary School) later. HCJC moved back to its Bukit Timah campus in 1992 after the college premises were rebuilt and has remained there since.
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