Meeting Place for Diversity
The present and coming generations will have to tackle serious issues when it comes to climate changes and people being forced to leave their homes. One generation of our students has just graduated, and many leave with an urgency about tackling these issues. Awareness of environmental and humanitarian concerns is central in the education we [...]
Graduation Ceremony 2016
Graduation took place on Saturday 21st May at UWC Red Cross Nordic. It was a pleasure to welcome so many families, host families from our local community and other guests on Friday evening for dinner in the Høegh and then a cultural show – all coordinated by the first year students. The ceremony took place in a [...]
Liusiadh Brown (Intern)
Liusaidh, a young, blue-haired teaching intern from Scotland, arrived at RCN in late July, 2015. She didn’t know much about the College and had no experience of teaching. She didn’t have much confidence, and the Summer Course students asked her strange questions that were sometimes difficult to answer. Now Liusaidh is a real teacher. She [...]
Sarina Tahitu (Intern)
We were happy to welcome Sarina Tahitu to the College as a teaching intern in April. She came to us as a student teacher from the World Teachers Training Programme at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Before doing her educational master, she graduated in cultural anthropology and development sociology. With a particular interest in Development Studies and Theory of Knowledge, [...]
Constitution Lecture 2016
It was a pleasure to welcome Steinar Bryn (senior adviser at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue) to UWC RCN today. Steinar delivered the fourth UWC RCN Annual Constitution Lecture (based on the College’s Nordic Pillar) – following previous lectures by Kåre Willoch (former Prime Minister of Norway), Sven Mollekleiv (President of the Norwegian [...]
Street Mediation Instructors’ Course
Marlene Lauridsen Following on from a meeting with the Norwegian Red Cross in Oslo, our Red Cross Board Rep (Liv Ronglan) kindly agreed to coordinate a trainer to visit the College to run the full ‘Street Mediation Instructors’ Course’ at some point in the second part of the academic year. All members of [...]