Question: What is Peace?
Early on Sunday 8th October, a group of 9 RCNers headed to the remote island of Gåsvær, Solund, in quest of peace. The aim was to thoroughly disconnect from the outside world (no mobiles or internet!) and find ways to engage with the concept of peace in terms of mind, body, communication and environment. The [...]
Every Child a Possibility
From Friday to Sunday our College joined in with the national campaign to support the work of UNICEF, through TV Aksjonen. On Friday we had a special day focused on education and the work of UNICEF. Guest speakers Arne Olsen and Milad Dean set the tone in the auditorium with perspectives on how education is being [...]
Stop Human Trafficking PBL
Stop Human Trafficking Project Week was dedicated to active Human Rights campaigning. We started by studying cases of Human Rights violations in the countries of the participants: Ecuador, Bangladesh, Georgia, Western Sahara, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Niger, Russia, Armenia and Iceland. There were many personal stories and much engaging debate, often finishing with "...but what we can [...]
Ulrika Kjeldsen (’10 – ’12)
Right now life feels quite odd. Newly graduated with an Art degree and being outside a school system for the first time since I was six years old, feels like being a half-finished painting and my frame just fell off. Every now and then I feel lost and I doubt myself, whether I am choosing [...]
Frivannsliv Project Based Learning
Fri-vanns-liv means something like, 'living free in open water' - in other words diving in the sea by holding breath (apnea). For this project there were seven of us - six students: Chisato, Pei-Yu, Fabiana, Vicky, Leon, Steinar; and teacher Jelena. Part of the project was that the students were in charge of organising the [...]
Tutti Fratelli! Tutti Sorelle!
UWC Red Cross Nordic was invited to send two representatives - Larry Lamont as Rektor and Arne Osland as Director of Development - to the Norwegian Red Cross' Landsmøtet (annual general assembly) 2017 in Haugesund (the 40th anniversary of this event). Alongside representation from all the Red Cross districts in Norway, the Norwegian Red Cross [...]