Nordic National Committees

2015-11-15T10:33:23+01:00November 15th, 2015|

It is a pleasure to host the Nordic National Committees on campus for their Annual General Meeting this weekend. Their itinerary has included connecting with students, meeting for their AGM and with the Education Management Team, and attending the European Show in the Høegh. This is the first time we have been able to host the Nordic NCs in our new buildings – the Thor Heyerdahl and Henry Dunant Buildings – and we are looking forward to working together, following initial discussions, to launch a Nordic Short Course (perhaps in tandem with Red Cross Youth with a view to promoting both UWC and Red Cross values) based in the new buildings and to take advantage of our spectacular campus in the summer and facilities.

Nordic Life: Helle Knives

2015-11-12T06:43:04+01:00November 12th, 2015|

Today Torodd Helle, CEO of Helle Fabrikke (Knife Factory) in Holmedal came and gave a presentation to the first years as part of their Nordic Life Skills course. He gave the students an introduction to craftsmanship handed down generation to generation, branding and the essential core values which underpin the Helle brand, international marketing and his aspirations for the HAFs regions to be a ‘torch to the future’ – all of this was very much in line with our Nordic Pillar and our connection to our local community. His presentation was followed by a highly stimulating Q & A session – Torodd finished the session with an invitation for students to visit the factory in Holmedal at a later point in the academic year. For more information on the company, please click here.

Helle Fabrikke is one of the local companies which has sponsored the creation of the IB Dale places – for three Sogn og Fjordane students to student here at RCN. After the presentation he met with our first cohort of students on this programme – Thea, Louise and Jakob. We are hugely grateful to Helle Fabrikker and other local companies for their investment in international educational opportunities for local students.

UWC Changshu – Opening

2015-12-09T07:35:56+01:00November 7th, 2015|

An RCN delegation was invited to attend the opening of UWC Changshu, the first UWC in mainland China – an exciting development. It has been a long journey – starting with the founder (Mark Wang) meeting HM Queen Sonja, our patron, in a Beijing rehabilitation centre in the late 1990s when he was learning to walk again after a plane crash, his selection to attend Red Cross Nordic and the ambition to open a UWC in China. Our College and the Norwegian MFA provided support and funding for the initial stage of the project.

Svein Ole Sæther, the Norwegian Ambassador to China, kindly joined our Norwegian delegation for the event. Mark Wang spoke very generously in the opening ceremony about HM Queen Sonja’s engagement with UWC and his own experiences as a student at RCN. It is certainly a tremendous achievement to open a UWC in mainland China with our values-based educational model at the heart of it.

 

RCN Jubilee Event in Oslo

2015-11-04T13:13:26+01:00November 4th, 2015|

On Tuesday 3rd November, Marianne Andresen kindly hosted a drinks reception at her house in Bygdøy as part of RCN’s 2015 Jubilee celebrations. The hosting team consisted of Marianne, Larry (Rektor), Tove (Chair of RCN’s Board), Arne (Director of Development), Elisabeth (UWC Norge) and three students: Balder (Norway), Bassie (Sierra Leone) and Emma (the Netherlands). Over 50 guests gathered at Smedbraaten for this wonderful occasion – from committed supporters to Oslo-based ambassadors, from representatives of the Storting to fellow educators, from members of UWC Norge and the wider UWC community to our partners in the Norwegian Red Cross. Guests from the Storting included Olemic Thommesen (President of Parliament) and Elisabeth Aspaker (Minister for Nordic Cooperation), Laila Bokhari (State Secretary for Security and Terrorism), Liv Signe Navarsete from the Centre Party. It was a very special evening with a series of short speeches by Tove, Larry, Arne and Elizabeth and a song by Bassie.

Please click to read the speeches from Larry and Arne.

 

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