Go Make A Difference
GoMakeADifference was created by Colin Habgood and his wife Jill Longson (AC ’81) in 2001, to provide grants to UWC students. This year, we have three projects from UWC Red Cross Nordic that [...]
Friluftsveka 2019 in Stryn
In the last 9 days, all first year students got to experience the cold, sunny, challenging and fun feelings of being deep in the mountains – as part of our annual Friluftsveka (Outdoor [...]
Neil Davis Friluftsliv
An eager, enthusiastic, intrepid (and somewhat unsuspecting) team assembled for this year's "Neil Davis Memorial Friluftsliv" snowcaving trip in Gaularfjell: after 3.5 hrs of sweaty excavating and shovelling in a soft drizzle, a [...]
Parafootball and Deadline Day
For many years our students have had the pleasure of being involved with football activities in Fjalerhallen under the term "parafootball". This is made in co-operation with the culture section in Fjaler Municpality. Jon [...]
Award for Mark Chalkley
Our Senior University Counsellor, Mark Chalkley, has been chosen one of the nine 2019 Counselors That Change Lives, the only international counsellor to receive the award this year - and we think the first UWC [...]
Focus on World Religions
Last week was World Religion Week at UWC RCN, with focus on interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding and philosophy of religion. We welcomed two visitors for the event, Hugh Rice of the University of [...]
A Colourful Visitor
A large light spectrum visits our biology lab on those rare clear days in winter, when the Sun is high enough over the hills but low enough to shine through an accidental prism (a [...]
Til fjells – a walk in the hills
Some current students have been especially enthusiastic to experience local outdoor possibilities; this was noticeable when they woke up one Sunday morning last winter and carried skis for an hour to a nearby skiing [...]
Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony 2018
The International Community taking a Stance against Wartime Sexual Violence. In Oslo City Hall for the ceremony This year the College had the honour of being represented at the Nobel Peace Prize [...]
Maarten Hillebrandt (RCN ’01-’03)
If ever a national stereotype applied to a young adolescent, for me, it would be the famed Dutch directness. From a young age, I strived to “tell it as I see it”. In high school, [...]