Neil Davis – In Memory

2018-10-16T09:32:59+01:00October 6th, 2015|

The Neil Davis Friluftsliv Project-Based Learning Week Jubilee Donation

Neil Davis (UK, UWC RCN 1999-2001) passed away in May 2015.  A member of Finland House, Neil was a particularly enthusiastic participant in outdoor activities, and fondly recalled his experiences of making a snow-cave whilst on a College trip.  Neil’s family have been in touch in the first part of this term to set up an annual financial contribution of £750 / circa NOK 9,540 to UWC RCN towards encouraging and enabling generations of RCN students to gain a similar kind of experience that so clearly made an impression on Neil. With this in mind, and following correspondence with Neil’s parents, Lee and Mike Davis, we are pleased to announce the start of the ‘Neil Davis Friluftsliv PBL’ programme.

Each year, the Director of Extra Academic Programme will nominate a planned outdoor project that will take place during either the winter Project-Based Learning (January PBL) week or Friluftsveka (formerly, Ski Week): this project will involve students overnighting outdoors (tent or snow-cave), experiencing Norwegian winter conditions, with at least one student participant communicating with the family and contributing to Neil’s blog (Neilo14@wordpress.com) on his / her experiences before and after the event.

We are extremely grateful to the Davis family for making this donation – as part of our wider Jubilee Fund – and we plan that this gift enables a group of students to benefit from an exciting annual outdoor challenge in Neil’s memory.

Richard D A Lamont
Rektor
UWC Red Cross Nordic
5th October 2015

UWC RCN Strategy 2020

2018-10-16T09:33:00+01:00October 4th, 2015|

‘Here is where we have students who are truly interesting and interested, staff who are really inspiring and inspired, and together we create an engaged and engaging community that actively cares and supports each other’s dreams and ambitions, for ourselves and for the world’

[student in the graduating class of 2015]

This is perhaps the finest articulation we have come across of the strength of this College and which stands at the heart of UWC RCN’s Strategy 2020 which we launched at our Jubilee on the 21st September 2015.

We are a unique college within the UWC, with our Nordic heritage and partnership with the Red Cross – and, through a nine month consultation phase, we have worked alongside all constituencies to establish a strategic plan which preserves the values, traditions and spirit that distinguish the place but, at the same time, prepares the College and the students for the demands of a new world. At the heart of the new design for the strategic plan is financial sustainability. As the College moves into its third decade, we need to lay important foundations for the future development of this College.

Our aim has, in the end, been to produce a concise and meaningful articulation of the strategic plan which we can use both internally and share with pride with external stakeholders / cooperation partners. It seeks to give a direction for how we approach the mission of making education a uniting force – development and action plans will follow to ensure the implementation of UWC RCN Strategy 2020.

Please click here for the full edition of  UWC RCN Strategy 2020.

Larry Lamont – Rektor
Arne Osland – Director of Development

Foreningen Norden

2018-10-16T09:33:00+01:00October 2nd, 2015|

The image above shows an article on UWC RCN and its 20th anniversary published recently in ‘Norden’, the quarterly publication of Foreningen Norden (the Nordic Association – Norwegian branch). It is based on an interview with Tove Veierød, formerly Chair of the Board of Foreningen Norden and currently Chair of the Board of UWC RCN. Olemic Thommessen, the current Chair of  Foreningen Norden and President of the Norwegian Parliament, has kindly accepted our invitation to attend RCN’s third Jubilee event in Oslo on 3rd November at Bygdøy. We continue to appreciate the support and our partnership with Foreningen Norden.

Professor Geir Lundestad

2018-10-16T09:33:01+01:00September 30th, 2015|

Professor Geir Lundestad

It was a pleasure to welcome Professor Geir Lundestad (formerly Director of the Nobel Peace Institute and Secretary to the Nobel Committee) to UWC RCN today as part of our celebration of the official opening of the college twenty years ago on the 30th September 1995.

Professor Lundestad’s programme included: meeting the Mayor of Fjaler and Inger Johanne Osland (Director of the Rehabilitation Centre); attending an IB Global Politics class; lunch with second year IB Philosophy students; the delivery of his lecture on ‘What can the Nobel Peace Prize achieve?’; and a book signing at the College and at the local bookshop in Dale.

For Larry’s introduction to the Constitution Lecture, the Nobel Institute in Oslo, the partnership between the College and the Peace Prize, and Professor  Lundestad, please click here. Professor Lundestad’s presentation covered many issues – from (re)interpretation of Alfred Nobel’s will to changing definitions of peace over time, from notable omissions in the laureate list to stimulating insights into the global politics. Professor Lundestad started his presentation by saying to the students: ‘Count your blessings: go on to make important contributions’ – and came back to this message at the end. A fitting message for our students, given UWC’s mission and on the anniversary of RCN’s opening twenty years ago.

 

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