Beginning of the year Board Meeting
On the weekend of September 2nd – 4th, the new board of RCN met for the first time since our new principal Pelham Lindfield Roberts was appointed in early summer. Appointing a new head for a school is a demanding task – we have had many considerations. But to meet the new head in [...]
Interns from the Netherlands
For many years UWC Red Cross Nordic has cooperated with the University of Leiden. This is a mutual beneficial cooperation which allows students at Leiden University to get hands-on experience working as teachers. For RCN it's a great opportunity for us to welcome and include fresh new ideas into the classrooms and the interns are always [...]
Pelham Lindfield Roberts is appointed new Rektor at UWC Red Cross Nordic
HM King Harald, HM Queen Sonja, Yi Wang, Vice Chair of the Board and Pelham Lindfield Roberts in UWC Changshu China On behalf of the Board, I am glad to announce that Pelham Lindfield Roberts has been appointed Rector of UWC Red Cross Nordic. Hege Myhre resigned some months ago, and due [...]
Elizabeth Sellevold
Photo by Thomas Brun Please get to know Elizabeth Sellevold, the Chair of the UWC Red Cross Nordic Board and how she wants to help UWC Red Cross Nordic to develop: Since I was a teenager, books have been my passion. I studied management at St. Andrews in Scotland. But as soon [...]
UWCRCN Graduation 2022
Congratulations to our Class 2022! Our Class of 2022 graduated on the 20th May. It was a great pleasure to welcome so many families, host families from our local community and other guests at the ceremony after two years without guests. The evening before the ceremony we welcomed the guests with a café [...]
Magnea Gna Johannsdottir (RCN ’17)
Magnea Gna Johannsdottir (RCN '17) is the youngest person ever elected to the Reykjavik city council. Her political party Framsókn (English: Progressive Party) gained 18,7% of the votes, making it the third-largest party in the city and the key to negotiating majority governance. The elections showed that people wanted change, and people were [...]