Elias Rodriguez ’15-’17
Elias Rodriguez (Argentina RCN) was offered a one month placement at a residential school in the UK for the month of July – and the first month of RCN’s summer break - and joined a fellow UWC student - Jacqueline Nkhonjera from Malawi - from Waterford Kamhlaba for the experience. Elias reports: ‘The time that I [...]
UWC Pastoral Care Conference
In mid-June, a UWC Pastoral Care Conference was held at Pearson College, Canada over five days. It was designed to bring together residential staff from all UWCs in the spirit of connectivity and collaboration. We were delighted that there were representatives from all the UWC schools and colleges, including the two prospective campuses in Thailand [...]
Galdhøpiggen with the Red Cross
This year a group of students and teachers from RCN again participated in the annual Til Topps event, organized by The Norwegian Red Cross. It was the 10th anniversary of this amazing hike to Galdhøpiggen that is, with its 2,469 meters elevation, the highest mountain in Norway and with that the highest mountain in Scandinavia [...]
På Flukt (‘On the Run’)
Waking up This weekend, the College in tandem with the Norwegian Red Cross ran the annual På Flukt (‘On the Run’) simulation for first year students. There had been much preparation in the build up to this event (marking the end of the first year RCN experience) including a Global Concerns Day on [...]
A Day on the Island of Svanøy
We set off at 0730hrs, wet, cold, windy. A joy to be on a boat! For the hour journey most stayed below deck ... fast asleep. When we arrived we quickly huddled under the nearest trees which offer too few leaves to shelter under and too few trees to make much of a difference. As [...]
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 [...]