24-hour Notice Board Gender Week is a student-initiated event that encourages discussion on topics related to gender and sexuality. We started it off with an engaging panel on inter-sectional feminism that sparked discussions about historical reactions to feminism, cultural differences and questions related to raising children in today's society. During a panel discussion There were some powerful performances in the Vagina Monologues, organised [...]

Harald Møller and Zoya Taylor have offered to commission a video project in cooperation with Kim Køste of Nordic Screens with the aim to increase the visibility of our work. As part of the planning process Kim visited us this weekend to share his ideas, meet with interested students, listen to their ideas and get going. We will develop a youtube channel as a platform for telling [...]

UWC Red Cross Nordic is pleased to announce that Guđmundur Hegner Jónsson will become the College’s next Rektor, starting in August 2018. Guđmundur was selected from an exceptionally strong field of applicants. Icelandic in origin he brings a broad international experience within education and management. On his appointment, Guđmundur said: I am truly delighted and humbled to have been offered the position as Rektor of UWC Red [...]

BREAKING NEWS: UWC Receives Major Donation from Shelby Davis ** Introducing the new Davis-UWC Dare to Dream programme ** For UWC, the year 2018 is off to a fantastic start: Shelby Davis has just announced another major donation to UWC of at least 100 million USD! This gift is one of the most significant gifts ever made to a secondary educational institution. Davis’ donation will be rolled [...]

Last week Leonora Kleiven and Joakim Janninge, staff from UWC Connect, visited Atlantic College to meet with their Outdoors Department to learn and share experiences of how to best develop outdoor activities and local outreach. Alongside the sharing they also got to participate in different activities, among them gorging. It was fun! Maybe it will be possible to find suitable rivers close to UWC RCN?

Santa Claus came early to Haugland this year. We have just got the good news that Gjensidige Foundation have granted UWC RCN 125,850NOK to be spent on dry suits for our kayaking and canoeing activities. We are really happy and grateful as this means we can have full year-round activity under the fjords for both students and visitors as well as more appropriate clothing for people with [...]