Garage sale! Towards the end of term, the following departing members of staff - Kathini, Larry, Simon, Marloes, Cristina and Avis - held a garage sale for the staff, student and local community to raise money for the Foundation Year Scholarship programme at UWC Red Cross Nordic. This was a new initiative held in the Rektor's garage one Saturday morning - with furniture, cutlery and [...]

Ever wonder what RCN Staff get up to on a Friday night? One Friday night every term, RCN staff leave their responsibilities behind and head to what has become known as our 'staff koselig (cozy) evenings'. We eat, we drink, we don't talk about IB. We form teams and compete as part of a mini-staff quiz. But, most importantly, we listen to a featured RCN staff member [...]

With the Educational Management Team Gone fishing! Arnett Edwards, Principal of UWC Li Po Chun, visited RCN this week as part of research he is conducting on leadership within UWC and students' understanding and enactment of UWC mission and values. As part of his itinerary, he met with individual members of the management team, students selected to represent Hong Kong, members of the [...]

Marianne Andresen opening the new Baking House On Wednesday 6th June, our Baking House was formally opened. Invited guests, students and staff joined together for the opening mid-afternoon. It started with an introduction to the development of the Nordisk Tun (Nordic Yard), pizzas freshly cooked in the wood-fired oven, speeches and musical performances (with a Swedish theme for their National Day). We were delighted that [...]

Kai Eide, former Norwegian politician and diplomat, was invited to give the 2018 Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Pillar Lecture at UWC RCN on Wednesday 6th June. He chose the title of 'The Changing Balance of Power and other Challenges to our Order' and gave a stimulating and thought-provoking presentation to an auditorium of students, staff and trainees from Framtidsfylket. He finished with encouragement to defenders of globalism to [...]

World Environment Day picnic Mia Chamberlain and Andreas Randøy from "Nature and Youth" visited to celebrate World Environment Day with us. Nature and Youth is the biggest youth environmental organization in Norway and part of the global Friends of Earth organisation. They work for global causes by engaging in local issues - by fighting against oil drilling in Lofoten or dumping mining waste in the [...]