Support Staff in Bergen
Following on from the success of the Support Staff trip in the summer of 2012 to UWC Mostar, a group of our current Support Staff headed to Bergen in week 16 for some professional development. As part of their trip, they visited Åsane Folkehøgskole, major suppliers in Bergen and attended a series of lectures on catering including sessions led by Arne Brimi and Berit Nordstrand. Please find [...]
The Student Council
The RCN Student Council comprises Representatives from each House, 'Aspect Workers' who sit on the Standing Committees, a UWC RCN Board Representative, a Communications Representative and the Chair. The Student Council (SC) holds meetings every week-end, House Reps meet each week, and the Committees meet monthly, as does the SC with the Education Management team. Student Council is clearly a demanding EAC, requiring considerable commitment to student welfare across all aspects of life at RCN. This [...]
Work in the community
The SaFuGe team have been out and about working in the local community. After a recent project one of the members writes, SAFUGE works in farms in the community such as the one we call the Yellow Farm just outside school. The owner is Leif Jarle Espedal for whom we have set up fences, cleared forest, cut trees and cleaned a barn. We also dismantled an old [...]
Tribute: Marius Hauge
Ever since his days at Atlantic College, Marius Hauge (AC 1967-9) has been serving “spiffing refreshments” as he called them. Whether it be at the sea-front down by the Bristol Channel or in the Dining Hall at AC, Marius would create a happy atmosphere to any event, big or small. Marius as a grown man was a UWC enthusiast known for crossing the Skagerrak (a strait running [...]
Aurland Visitors
Two 3rd year students from Sogn Jord og Hagebruksskule, Aske Tangen and Une Strømme spent their practice week from 7th - 10th April at the College as part of the cooperation between our two schools. The students chose classes to visit, and worked with College students during our campus cleaning service. Aske and Une kindly offered to prune trees and bushes around the College, which was possible as new growth [...]
EdTech Global Foundation
UWC RCN has been offered the unique opportunity to form a delegation to attend the third annual conference of EdTech Europe 2015 in London. The conference brings together established learning and education providers, innovators, disrupters, educators, policy makers and investors with an interest in European and global education technology. The 2015 one-day summit will be hosted at Kings Place in London on 18 June 2015. The UWC (RCN) [...]