UN Landmine Awareness Day
Last Saturday, 8th of April, UWC Red Cross Nordic held its third campaign for the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. Students of the RCN Survivors of Conflict programme and those from countries affected by landmines led different activities to raise awareness about this issue. The organising group ran a session [...]
Chris Hamper (’95 – present)
I never liked doing “seat of the pants” stuff, as Tony Macoun would put it, but that’s how it was being an administrator with a full-time teaching job. I ended up in administration because I was good at making lists. This isn’t really true, I was good at using a computer to make lists. It’s [...]
Youth Teamwork & Leadership
This week the first year students of RCN have started their Leirskule training week, an opportunity for our students to develop a skill set leading and guiding Norwegian school children in outdoor adventures. Leirskule is an essential UWC mission-related part of RCN’s community service and local outreach. We began the week with a series of [...]
Training for Leirskule
The training for the students' Leirskule service has begun. First year students are taking over from the second year students and are, during an intensive week, learning the necessary skills in different activities to be able to lead the activities for the visiting children from Norwegian schools. The group learning kayaking, for example, have to not [...]
RCN at Ridderrennet
Ridderrennet is a huge winter sports event for people with various disabilities that takes place at Beitostølen every year. A group of twelve RCN students went together with Hilde, a teacher from the College, and Guro, a physiotherapist from Red Cross Haugland Rehabilitation Centre from March 26th to April 2nd. The participants come from many different [...]
Loredana Stroe
Here at Red Cross Nordic we are always keen to support young professionals embarking on teaching careers. Our students, with their energy and enthusiasm provide a perfect practice ground to reflect on the mission of teaching. For the last six weeks we have had with us Loredana Stroe, as a volunteer and Math teacher trainee. Loredana comes from [...]