Climate Voices in Sogn Folkmuseum
Forsikningsdagane (Research Days) is an event organised nationwide in Norway. This year Vestlandforsikning, the research institute of West Norway, organised an international climate change workshop for youth called ‘Climate Voices in Sogn Folkmuseum’ on Friday [...]
Nansen Refugee Award Winner
The 2017 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award winner has been announced as Mr. Zannah Mustapha, a lawyer, school-founder and peace-maker from north east Nigeria. He is being honoured for his dedication and commitment to ensuring children [...]
UWC Refugee Intiative – UNHCR
In light of the dramatic escalation in the number of young displaced people fleeing conflict, persecution or environmental disaster, combined with the need for future post-conflict leadership, there is an urgent need to further increase [...]
Visitors from US Universities
Our annual university fair took place last weekend with many US universities represented. It was superbly coordinated by Mark Chalkley and Hildegunn Arstein, our RCN university counsellors, and Susan Albrecht and Dave Fredricks, the UWC tour [...]
Art Exhibition – Inclusion
An exhibition was put in place on the 21st of September, for HM Queen Sonja, with the theme of "inclusion", a value that is at the core of the UWC movement. The work displayed in [...]
Long Service Award for Vidar
Vidar at work on the Baking House This summer saw the retirement of Vidar Jensen (Head of Maintenance) from UWC Red Cross Nordic. Vidar has worked at Haugland for the past 30 years, [...]
Ed Love – Visiting Intern
Over the past fortnight, Ed Love (a doctoral candidate in Egyptology at St. John's College, Oxford) has been on a teaching internship at RCN. He has been visiting classes, contributing to our extra academic programme and has been [...]
HM Queen Sonja
"... A hope for the future ... Because every time I come here, I get new stimulation and know that you will go back to where you come from and that you be will very, very [...]
HM Queen Sonja at RCN
HM Queen Sonja "Education is the most valuable we can give to you young people". This was the message Her Majesty Queen Sonja gave in front of a packed auditorium at the end [...]
Angelika Love (’09 – ’11)
I still have not shaken off the idealism that two years at a UWC foster, almost without fail, among its students: the conviction that we can work towards a society in which people from different [...]