In light of the dramatic escalation in the number of young displaced people fleeing conflict, persecution or environmental disaster, combined with the need for future post-conflict leadership, there is an urgent need to further increase the number of refugee students being granted access to a world-class school education at a UWC school or college. This is why UWC launched the UWC Refugee Initiative, which aims to raise [...]

Our annual university fair took place last weekend with many US universities represented. It was superbly coordinated by Mark Chalkley and Hildegunn Arstein, our RCN university counsellors, and Susan Albrecht and Dave Fredricks, the UWC tour coordinators. The DROP team kindly provided refreshments on Sunday morning in advance of the interview sessions. Last week, we also had Mona Taylor from the GB National Committee giving an introduction to [...]

An exhibition was put in place on the 21st of September, for HM Queen Sonja, with the theme of "inclusion", a value that is at the core of the UWC movement. The work displayed in Naustet - one of the boathouses next to the floating bridge - was a combination of mediums such as photography, painting, prose and written work, all relating to the theme, and was [...]

Vidar at work on the Baking House This summer saw the retirement of Vidar Jensen (Head of Maintenance) from UWC Red Cross Nordic. Vidar has worked at Haugland for the past 30 years, from the times before the College and the Rehabilitation Centre were opened – and, more recently, he has served the College for 22 years since it was opened back in 1995. He [...]

Over the past fortnight, Ed Love (a doctoral candidate in Egyptology at St. John's College, Oxford) has been on a teaching internship at RCN. He has been visiting classes, contributing to our extra academic programme and has been helping students with advice on how to craft personal statements for university applications - and on one of the last evenings, he gave an outstanding presentation on the wonderful world of Egyptology to a [...]

HM Queen Sonja "Education is the most valuable we can give to you young people". This was the message Her Majesty Queen Sonja gave in front of a packed auditorium at the end of the Cultural Show. "Coming here to UWC RCN is always so invigorating, experiencing so much talent and willingness to share". This is the tenth time Her Majesty has visited our College [...]