Thank you to Sparebanken Vest!
We are so grateful that Sparebanken Vest, through Ildsjelfondet, continues to support our work towards creating equal opportunities for children and youths in Vestland county! Community interaction and service are at the heart of every UWC school. This requires the full and active participation of all members of the school or college. At [...]
Interdisciplinary day
All second-year students who take a science subject have to participate in a project designed to encourage cooperation between the sciences, it is the Group 4 project. The Group 4 project is an element of IB Diploma Program, a significant learning experience where students from different subjects come together and collaborate to carry out [...]
Call to Earth: Glaciers
Glaciers are giant reservoirs for 70% of the world's freshwater, and glacial retreat provides a stark visual representation of climate change. We have many glaciers in Norway, near us the biggest one on the European continent: Jostedalsbreen. In a unique project, in collaboration with CNN Call to Earth initiative, a group of students [...]
Visit of Faith Abiodun
Mid-October, we welcomed the Executive Director of UWC, Faith Abiodun, to campus. Faith joined UWC International as Executive Director in 2021, bringing a wealth of experience from his time as an education and social enterprise leader, international affairs analyst, writer, and speaker. Being the 6th UWC Faith has visited this year, we hopefully [...]
October PBL Week, 2022
Project Based Learning, or shortly PBL week, is over, so let's take a closer look at what PBL week is! PBL is part of our CAS program, the heart of the Diploma Programme. CAS is designed to strengthen and extend students' personal and interpersonal learning and is organized around the three strands of [...]
University life after UWC Red Cross Nordic
Preparing students for university applications and helping them in the process is an integral part of our work. Mark Chalkley is our Senior University Counsellor here at UWC Red Cross Nordic. The main focus of his work is to assist and support students when they apply to colleges and universities. This includes leading workshops [...]