GIIS East Coast Campus presented prestigious SQC Star award GIIS Queenstown and GIIS Balestier Campuses proud winners of SQC certification

Mr Atul Temurnikar, Chairman and Co-founder, GIIS receives the 3 SQC plaques from Prof. Cham Tao Soon, Chairman, SQA Governing Council

Competition today is global, intense and accelerating. For long-term survival, organisations need to strive for nothing less than world-class standards of business excellence. In 1997, SPRING (Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board), Singapore launched the Singapore Quality Class (SQC) scheme to recognize organizations which have attained a commendable level of performance against well defined parameters. These parameters or framework includes 7 categories, namely, Leadership, Planning, Information, People, Processes, Customers and Results.

A jubilant GIIS Balestier Campus team accompanied by GIIS Sr Management team with the SQC plaque

It is a commendable achievement for GIIS that all three GIIS schools in Singapore have been recognized by SPRING for Business Excellence at the same time. Although the qualifying score for an entry level school applying for SQC is in the 400-450 bandwidthboth- GIIS Queenstown

GIIS Queenstown Campus team accompanied by GIIS Sr Management team proudly lifts the SQC plaque

Campus and GIIS Balestier Campus have been placed in the 500-524 bandwidth in their very first attempt. GIIS East Coast Campus, which was certified as SQC in 2008, has been recognized as SQC Star and placed in the scoring bandwidth of 550-599.

The Singapore Quality Class certification awards were given to the GIIS teams at a glittering ceremony at the Suntec City Convention Centre on 29th March. It was a very proud moment for the entire GIIS community as Mr Atul Temurnikar, Co-founder and Chairman, GIIS worldwide, was invited on stage to receive the 3 trophies on behalf of all three Singapore campuses from Prof. Cham Tao Soon, Chairman, SQA Governing Council.

An elated GIIS, East Coast Campus team accompanied by GIIS Sr Management team with the prestigious Singapore Quality Class (SQC) Star 2010 plaque

Present at the prestigious event were members of the GIIS team, comprising of Mr B G Shenoy, Director- Global Centre of Education Excellence (GCEE), Mr Kaustubh Bodhankar, Deputy CEO, Mr Harish Doraiswamy, Deputy CEO and COO, Mr Rajiv Vasudeva, Country Director, GIIS Singapore, Dr Anju Aditya, Dean, GIISAC, Principals and Vice-Principals.

Link to view images of the SPRING award ceremony:

https://picasaweb.google.com/GIISHQ/GIISReceives
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Link to view video of SPRING award ceremony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYFvkLN8SoY