Model United Nations 2017
Our Model United Nations has, since the early years of the College, been a significant event and an integral part of the UWC experience. On January 26th the event commenced with Arne Øi from the UN Association West delivering the introductory presentation to the delegates. This was followed by engaging discussions in the eight respective [...]
Mostak Rahman (’99 – ’01)
Losing my father whilst still a baby, living in poverty with a mentally ill teenage mother, life threw a curve at me at an early age. My grandmother could not afford two daily proper nutritious meals for us, and my uncle - at the age of 10 - had to quit school to earn money [...]
Book Book Tuk Tuk – Cambodia
The employees at Red Cross Haugland Rehabilitation Centre decided that this year their Christmas presents from their workplace - with a total sum of 30,000 kroner - would go to the project 'Book Book Tuk Tuk' in Cambodia: Playing a central role in the project are our current Cambodian students Pring Mean and Sreythai Seng. [...]
Jacob Yath Deng (’15 – ’17)
“The greatest thing any person could do is to help another person. So if you can aid the people around you - that’s enough; there is nothing greater than that.” Jacob lives by these values and they guide him in his academic pursuits. Aspirations to study pharmaceutical chemistry lie at the forefront of his mind. The [...]
The Winter Programme
One of our students has written this account of the College's Winter Programme. The experience I had of the Winter Programme was one of the best experiences in RCN. It is run for ‘travel support’ students who College cannot afford to send back home for the December break. I had a choice to go back [...]
2016 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
5 students - Juan Pablo (Colombia), Pam (Colombia / Venezuela), Yael (Israel), Shweta (India) and Helen (Germany) - and one member of staff (Hilde from Norway) from UWC Red Cross Nordic attended the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in the city Hall in Oslo on Saturday 10th December. The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded [...]