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Ever wonder what RCN Staff get up to on a Friday night? One Friday night every term, RCN staff leave their responsibilities behind and head to what has become known as our 'staff koselig (cozy) evenings'. We eat, we drink, we don't talk about IB. We form teams and compete as part of a mini-staff [...]

With the Educational Management Team Gone fishing! Arnett Edwards, Principal of UWC Li Po Chun, visited RCN this week as part of research he is conducting on leadership within UWC and students' understanding and enactment of UWC mission and values. As part of his itinerary, he met with individual members of [...]

Marianne Andresen opening the new Baking House On Wednesday 6th June, our Baking House was formally opened. Invited guests, students and staff joined together for the opening mid-afternoon. It started with an introduction to the development of the Nordisk Tun (Nordic Yard), pizzas freshly cooked in the wood-fired oven, speeches and musical performances [...]

Kai Eide, former Norwegian politician and diplomat, was invited to give the 2018 Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Pillar Lecture at UWC RCN on Wednesday 6th June. He chose the title of 'The Changing Balance of Power and other Challenges to our Order' and gave a stimulating and thought-provoking presentation to an auditorium of students, staff and [...]

World Environment Day picnic Mia Chamberlain and Andreas Randøy from "Nature and Youth" visited to celebrate World Environment Day with us. Nature and Youth is the biggest youth environmental organization in Norway and part of the global Friends of Earth organisation. They work for global causes by engaging in local issues - by [...]

The field trip to island of Svanøy (“Sunnfjords Perle”) – and its “Norwegian Deer Centre” – is a highlight of our annual year’s end. This time in perfect weather. During the boat trip, the Biology students took oceanographic measurements and samples of plankton. On Svanøy, during the lowest tides, they scattered on the beautiful rocky [...]