UWC Day
UWC Day is the annual global celebration of the UWC mission and values, which takes place on 21 September every year, to coincide with the UN International Day of Peace. Each year, UWC Day is celebrated by thousands of people worldwide, including students and staff at UWC schools and colleges, national committees, UWC [...]
Book launch on UWC Day
The story of the first 25 years of UWC Red Cross Nordic is written by award-winning author and journalist Mette Karslvik, a first-generation alumna of the college. Through individual narrative, Karlsvik paints a picture of how a school dedicated to peace and sustainability has been established and flourished in a small fjord arm [...]
A Doer and a Thinker
At the end of his engagement for the Fjaler Theatre Festival, Dag Hareide visited our college to engage with our students. Dag Hareide is an author, organizational leader, and interdisciplinary thinker. He has been, among other positions, director of the Rainforest Foundation, one of the largest rainforest organizations in the world, and director [...]
Kainat Ansari (RCN’19)
Meet Kainat Ansari from Pakistan. After graduating from RCN, she studied Psychology at Whitman College, where she received the Ben Rabinowitz Awards for her community work. Now she continues her studies at the University of Oxford. Reflecting on my UWC RCN journey brings nothing but tears of joy and gratitude. The place that polished [...]
Beginning of the year Board Meeting
On the weekend of September 2nd – 4th, the new board of RCN met for the first time since our new principal Pelham Lindfield Roberts was appointed in early summer. Appointing a new head for a school is a demanding task – we have had many considerations. But to meet the new head in [...]
Interns from the Netherlands
For many years UWC Red Cross Nordic has cooperated with the University of Leiden. This is a mutual beneficial cooperation which allows students at Leiden University to get hands-on experience working as teachers. For RCN it's a great opportunity for us to welcome and include fresh new ideas into the classrooms and the interns are always [...]