Teachers visiting LAMS in Pakistan
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 [...]
Board Meeting in Copenhagen
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 [...]
Trainee teachers at UWCRCN
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 International in South Africa
'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 [...]
Arctic expedition opportunity!
Are you a candidate to go on an Arctic expedition for global change makers? Along with other UWCs, we have been asked by Norway-based FutureTalks to help them recruit a total of 10 young leaders (18-25 years old) to go on an expedition to the Arctic, August 2018, as part of a group of 100 global leaders and change makers. The other participants of the expedition are [...]
Neil Davis Friluftsliv PBL
Here is report written by one of the participating students on this years Neil Davis Friluftsliv PBL. Each year the family of deceased RCN alumnus Neil Davis offer funds towards supporting this event appreciating the memory of Neil’s enjoyment of his friluftsliv experiences at RCN. I was really shocked and surprised in the best way possible when I found out that I had been accepted into the [...]