The Council of UWC RCN
It was a pleasure to welcome the members of Council and other guests from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th April for the annual UWC RCN Council meeting here on campus. Our Council members continue to [...]
Student Council Transition Weekend
The outgoing Student Council members - gazing off into their responsibility-free futures... Last weekend, the outgoing RCN Student invited the incoming Student Council to a handover / training weekend on the island of [...]
The week of Ridderrennet 2016
Sina Tenold, a member of the 'Knights' Extra-academic commitment which enables participating students to have amazing experiences in the local nature, as well as going further afield, has written the following thoughts having returned from Ridderrennet [...]
Goalball Tournament at the College
Goalball is a Paralympic sport in which the blind can play with the sighted - as the sighted participants are blindfolded. We learned about Goalball from our long-term partners and friends at the Laski Institute – [...]
A Winner at the Physics Olympiad
Congratulations to Nikita Klimenko (UWC RCN first year – Belarus) for winning the Physics Olympiad 2016 in Norway. Nikita and Angela Xiong (UWC RCN first year - China) and fourteen other finalists were invited to [...]
Model European Parliament in Riga
First-year students Johanne Hansen (Norway) and Sara-Estelle Gößwein (Germany) recently travelled to Riga in Latvia, to take part in a Model European Parliament. This is their report. The national library where the sessions took place Forming [...]
Global Concerns: Migration
The topic for this term’s Global Concern was migration, a particularly pertinent focus given the reality of our world today. The events of the day were largely organized by students and consisted of informative, engaging [...]
Marín Rós Tumadóttir
It is with deep sadness that we inform our alumni and staff community that Marín Rós Tumadóttir, our 2001 RCNUWC graduate from Iceland, has passed away in Reykjavik. Expressions of condolences to Marín's parents, Allyson McDonald [...]
Lauge Schøler (’06 – ’08)
I was always very interested in the idea of the suberb educational experience, the completely absorbed state of mind where time expands and you are fulfilling perhaps the most fundamental human need - the need [...]
‘One Step Forward’ – Tedx at RCN
On March 12th, UWC Red Cross Nordic hosted its first TEDx event and the first one in Sogn og Fjordane. The organizing committee involved 11 students, making it the first TEDx event to be organized [...]