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Raffles Consultancy is an educational group which aims to provide a wide range of educational consulting and training services to both International and local schools for the whole of South East Asia.

Raffles Consultancy equips teachers with the right skills, capabilities and tools by providing them with a broad and comprehensive range of training programmes and products. These programmes are customized and designed to suit their training needs. Raffles Consultancy will ensure that the delivery of these programmes will benefit the teachers in the later part of their developments. RC encourage teachers in Indonesia to embark on lifelong learning and in the process be awarded with higher certification.

Currently, Raffles Consultancy is providing support to Indonesia in the education sector through sector development, provision of educational equipment and materials, and assistance for development of curricula and textbooks, teacher training, and institutional administration.

It assists in improving relevance and quality of education, ensuring more efficient, equitable and effective delivery of education; training teachers and parent groups in educating students by employing new education techniques and methodologies. The consultants train trainers (ToT) during short and long-term training courses related to fostering, training, and retraining of teachers, education administrators and officials to ensure the continued cycle of improvement through various programs.

RC also assists in development of textbooks and teaching materials for different areas of education. They assist in improving the quality, durability, and availability of textbooks and other instructional materials, as well as enhancing the efficiency of textbooks, through developing capacity in curriculum development, textbooks preparation and publishing, training classroom teachers in the use of student-oriented teaching methods required for the revised curriculum, and reviewing and strengthening the textbook production system.

Another essential part of education development is, in particular, by supporting the non-formal education in remote areas having no or limited educational institutions by taking advantage of the opportunities in ICT to contribute to education goals and poverty reduction strategies.