It was a pleasure to welcome the members of Council and other guests from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th April for the annual UWC RCN Council meeting here on campus. Our Council members continue to act as our supporters, our bridge-builders, and our voice across the Nordic region. The Council gathers once a year on campus and the Board twice a term, alternating between College visits and [...]

The outgoing Student Council members - gazing off into their responsibility-free futures... Last weekend, the outgoing RCN Student invited the incoming Student Council to a handover / training weekend on the island of Værlandet. This has become an excellent tradition in recent years at RCN – at this time last year, a highly successful ‘retreat’ was held at Heggnes (on the side of the Dalsfjord). [...]

Sina Tenold, a member of the 'Knights' Extra-academic commitment which enables participating students to have amazing experiences in the local nature, as well as going further afield, has written the following thoughts having returned from Ridderrennet - the world's largest winter sports event for visually impaired and differently-abled athletes. The Knights are  back on campus after a great a great experience at Ridderuka. The week ended with Ridderrennet [...]

Goalball is a Paralympic sport in which the blind can play with the sighted - as the sighted participants are blindfolded. We learned about Goalball from our long-term partners and friends at the Laski Institute – a school for the blind and visually impaired in Poland. We have had many exchanges with this partner school, and Goalball has been part of all of them! We continue playing at [...]

Congratulations to Nikita Klimenko (UWC RCN first year – Belarus) for winning the Physics Olympiad 2016 in Norway. Nikita and Angela Xiong (UWC RCN first year - China) and fourteen other finalists were invited to participate in the final round of the Norwegian Physics Olympiad at the University of Oslo in early April.  992 students from 105 schools across Norway took part in this year’s competition – [...]

First-year students Johanne Hansen (Norway) and Sara-Estelle Gößwein (Germany) recently travelled to Riga in Latvia, to take part in a Model European Parliament. This is their report. The national library where the sessions took place Forming friendships, meeting one of our incoming Norwegian First Years, discussing current political issues, debating, learning about pragmatic compromise - and all that in a foreign country in the context of MEP–Model European Parliament. After [...]