Founding Staff Over the past weekend, we have hosted the biennial alumni reunion on campus – and it was an absolute pleasure to welcome the graduates of 1997, 1998, 2006, 2007, other guests (and lots of children) on behalf of UWC Red Cross Nordic. This was our first double reunion with alumni who left ten years ago and those who were in the founding generations [...]

Monday, 21st August marks both an end and a beginning for the students who are taking part in the Summer English Course at RCN. A group of about 20 students are currently on campus before the start of term in order to begin studying English and familiarizing themselves with the campus before the majority of students arrived. The summer course students spend each morning in class practising [...]

The RCN delegation of Arne, Lisa, Kathini, Poppy and Larry met at Bagarstugan with alumni and some of the founding team (Kjell Nilsson and Leif Jansson) of the partnership between UWC Red Cross Nordic and Åland. We had 6 alumni present including the very first student from Åland at the College and Leonardo (Italy) who has a summer job with the Ålandic Red Cross and is currently [...]

From 21-23 June staff from 13 UWCs met at UWC Atlantic to consider how to improve support for those students who come to us from non-English-speaking backgrounds. The conference, which was organised by staff at UWC Maastricht and UWC Atlantic, brought us together to identify and share good practice, identify areas in need of development, and work towards creating a unified action plan to establish solid support [...]

Following in the footsteps of Elías (Argentina), Abel (first year from Eritrea and representing the National Committee of Sudan), was invited to spend a month this summer studying on a scholarship provided by his hosting school in the U.K. So far, he has visited Oxford to gather data for his Extended Essay and is planning a visit to London for further data collection before flying back to [...]

It is with sadness we received the news of Hans Olav Tungesvik passing away, 81 years old, following injuries from a bicycle accident. His funeral was at Skånevik Church yesterday, June 22nd. Mr Tungesvik was Chair for the Foundation that worked to set up our College, leading up to the opening in 1995. We were pleased to see him here on campus for our 20th anniversary celebrations, [...]