Hermann Ingólfsson, Ambassador of Iceland to Norway, visited RCN on UWC Day in 2016 and kindly offered to donate a leatherbound set of 'The Complete Sagas of the Icelanders'. In December at an event at the Nordic Association, Hermann passed on the gift to Arne Osland, our Director of Development, for transportation back to the College. In today's College Meet, Arne presented the sagas to Hrafnhildur Ósk [...]

Leif Høegh, Chairman of Høegh Capital Partners, kindly visited RCN on Thursday 15th March to deliver a presentation on the sustainability paradox in Norway: wealth brought by oil, mineral extraction, shipping and fish farming on the one hand and important changes required to ensure a sustainable future. He presented to a packed K2 with over 75 students and staff present. In the Silent House The [...]

For five days this March all first years got to experience the cold, sunny, challenging, amusing and freeing feeling of being deep in Norwegian nature - all this while trying to balance on skis! The students arrived at the cabin in Stryn, a 4-hour drive from the College. Some were highly optimistic, others were dreading the idea of five days without internet and activities in the snow. [...]

RCN students Patricia (Åland), Tenzin (Tibet), Jack (UK), Sunniva (Norway), Mirandas (China), Celia (Sweden), Sara (Italy), Sadrac (Costa Rica), Abdullah (Palestine) were recently invited by 'In the Same Boat'  - a group who are doing research on microplastic in the ocean, and cleaning beaches - on a boat trip to learn more about the impact of plastic on the environment. During the four-day trip with Captain Børje and [...]

A new and exciting programme is taking shape as part of our pastoral care development. The first steps to implement it have been made during the end of the Project Based Learning week in February. Working closely with Annemarie Oomes, Peer Supporter Coordinator from UWC Maastricht, who came to RCN along with two of her student peer supporters, Aurianne and Alejo, we organised a weekend training session [...]

Between the 22th-24th February, RCN MUN 2018 temporarily transformed Flekke into a centre of debate, diplomacy and dialectic. The Secretariat for this year’s conference comprised of four members: Kalyani (India) as Secretary General, Raavi (USA) as Director General, Jesper (Denmark) as President and Lene (Germany) as Vice President. With 8 exciting committees, the conference yielded fruitful debate on many complex international issues such as the civil war [...]