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     1916
                                         1918
                    The General                                                               1923
                    Medical Council     A proposal
                    of Great Britain    to establish           1923                           The Singapore Medical
                    recognized the      the Raffles                                           College Graduates                       Raffles
                    Licenciate in       College to             The medical school was         Association—later                       College
                    Medicine and        commemorate            renamed to King Edward VII     known as the Alumni   1928              began
                    Sugery (LMS)                                                                                                      with 43
                                        the century of         College of Medicine.           Association—was
                                        founding of                                           founded, making it                      students
                                        Singapore                                             the oldest alumni
                                                                                              association in both
                                                                                              Malaya and Singapore
                                                      1947
                                                                                                             1942-
                                                         Carr-Saunders commision                             1945
                                                         recommendations concerning university   1946
                                                         education in Malaya and Singapore.                 The Japanese
                                                         The Commision recommended the                      used the King
                                                         amalgamation of the King Edward VII   Both the     Edward VII
                                                         College of Medicine and Raffles College   College were   College of
                                                         to from the University of Malaya. The   rehabilitated   Medicine and
                                                         University will move to new building that   and re-
                     1949                                would be created in Johore           opened        Raffles College
                                                                                                            buildings during
                                                                                                            their occupation
                   The University
                   of Malaya was
                   established on 8th
                   October with the                                                                                             1962
                   amalgamation of
                   the King Edward
                   VII College of                                                                                      The University of Malaya and the University
                   Medicine and                                                                                        of Singapore were established as two
                   Raffles College                                                                                     distinguished universities on 1 January.
                                                     Derma padi kepada
                                                                         1960     The government of the Federation of
                                                     Universiti Malaya
                                                                                  Malaya and Singapore indicated that the
                                                                                  Kuala Lumpur Division and the Singapore
                                                     1959                         Division of University of Malaya should
                        1958                                                      become autonomous, separate, national
                                                                                  universitites in their respective countries
                                                 The University of
                       Legislation was passed    Malaya was divided
                       to provide for the        into two divisions
                       continuance of the        – the University of
                       University of Malaya as   Malaya in Kuala
                       a single university and   Lumpur and the
                       the establishment of two   University of Malaya
                       autnomous division of     in Singapore
                       equal status, one in each
                       territory
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