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 [...]

At the end of February teachers Avis Rolfe and Liusaidh Brown with DP Coordinator Pete Wilson travelled to LAMS School in Sultan Town, Faisalabad in Pakistan. This was a follow-up visit after Pete’s first trip to the school in November 2016. LAMS school focuses on girls’ education at the secondary level and all the teaching staff at the school are women. These highly-qualified, dedicated and hard-working people [...]

The UWC RCN quarterly board meeting was held in Copenhagen last Friday. Members of the Board and Central Management Team were first given a guided tour of Copenhagen International School by two IB Diploma students - Tess (Denmark / Australia) and Kvitva (Ukraine) - with an opportunity to meet the Director and Head of Communications for a Q & A. The Board meeting was held at the [...]

At UWCRCN we have a tradition extending back over many years of hosting trainee teachers and interns. We have established partnerships with, among others, the World Teachers Programme at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, the University of Buckingham in England, Concordia University in Massachusetts USA and most recently with Høgskulen på Vestlandet. Currently Rachel Schaefer from Concordia is with us until April. Rachel is training [...]

'UWC smashed the myth of apartheid into smithereens' UWC International held an inaugural event in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the focus on 'How is the UWC movement impacting on development of South Africa and the continent, and can we do more?' The UWC community including the South African NC, alumni, representatives from Waterford Kamhlaba, members of the UWC International Board, newcomers to UWC and others participated in [...]