At RCN, students receive comprehensive support throughout their two-year program. This includes well-being support at the residential houses, as well as academic support from subject teachers and the Learning Support department. To address individual needs, students with learning challenges are referred for formal assessment by an educational psychologist and an Individual Education Plan (IEP) is created. The IEP is customized to each student's specific needs [...]

Between the 7th and the 13th of November, we continued with what has become a tradition at RCN: World Religion Week. This week we offered many different sessions, such as formal, philosophical lectures, open classroom Q&As, and student-led workshops and discussion groups. Some of the highlights included a panel discussion on faith in the face of tremendous evil like the holocaust, an online class visit [...]

Dear RCN Community, RCN captures you! So it was an easy decision to accept the offer from the board to extend my contract beyond the initial, interim year. It is hard to know exactly where you are or what is going on in a new school, until you have experienced the full annual calendar; and living on a fjord on the west coast of Norway provides [...]

The world turns its attention every year to the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo and, given UWC’s mission for peace and a sustainable future, we are honoured that our students are invited to attend the ceremony. This year the College was represented at the Nobel Peace Prize Awards in Oslo with the following students and staff attending: Lise-Lotte Lintervo (Finland), David Rios Torres (Bolivia), Noah [...]

We are so grateful that Sparebanken Vest, through Ildsjelfondet, continues to support our work towards creating equal opportunities for children and youths in Vestland county! Community interaction and service are at the heart of every UWC school. This requires the full and active participation of all members of the school or college. At UWC Red Cross Nordic, one of our guiding principles is the humanitarian [...]

All second-year students who take a science subject have to participate in a project designed to encourage cooperation between the sciences, it is the Group 4 project. The Group 4 project is an element of IB Diploma Program, a significant learning experience where students from different subjects come together and collaborate to carry out a practical project. It is a day that students will surely remember [...]