Graduation 2015
Graduation took place on Saturday 23rd May at UWC Red Cross Nordic. It was a pleasure to welcome so many families, host families from our local community and other guests on Friday evening for dinner in the [...]
An Intern at the College
It was a pleasure to host Marloes Vrolijk from Leiden University for a month-long teaching placement in April. Marloes is currently on the university’s World Teacher Programme and wrote to RCN asking if we would [...]
University Tour
Mark Chalkley, RCN's Senior University Counsellor, reports on his experiences on a university tour in April: In early April 2015, 21 counsellors from the UWC family were flown over to the Midwest of the United [...]
Visiting UWC Mahindra
Larry, our Rektor, attended the biannual UWC Heads Meeting in India last week. As part of the programme, he had the opportunity to connect with various NGOs (including the Akshara Programme which prepared Saurabh Bharam [...]
Red Cross in Geneva
Arne Osland (Director of Development) and Richard Lamont (Rektor) were invited by Liv Ronglan (RCN's Norwegian Red Cross Board Member) to visit Geneva for a two day programme which included meetings at the International Federation [...]
Chinese Speech Prizes
We are very pleased to announce that students from the College won first and second prizes in the 2015 Chinese Bridge Speech competition on 9th May in Bergen. The competition was sponsored by the education [...]
World Red Cross Day
The 8th May is World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant (born 8th May 1828), the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and [...]
UWC Changshu
Robert Clarence (the founding Head of School of UWC Changshu China) and his wife Desirée have been visiting UWC Red Cross Nordic this week, staying with us from Sunday 3rd to Wednesday 6th May. UWC [...]
Earth Day Weekend
On the 22nd of April UN International Mother Earth Day was celebrated in many countries. As in previous years, RCN joined in with events and we used the opportunity to look at environmental topics in classroom [...]
May Day Hike
On May 1st, as part of international May Day celebrations, classes were suspended and first year students, a smattering of second years who made time away from their exam revision, and members of the teaching [...]