A Visitor from UWC Maastricht
It was a great pleasure to host Peter Howe (Principal of UWC Maastricht) here on campus over the past couple of days. Peter attended UWC Norge’s annual meeting in Oslo on Thursday at the invitation of Elizabeth Sellevold – and he gave a presentation on exciting new developments at our sister college. This was Peter’s first visit to our campus and, whilst here, he connected with students [...]
Physics and Maths in 2016
Two of our students, Nikita Klimenko (Belarus) and Angela Xiong (China) have reached the final round in the Norwegian Physics Olympiad. They will go to the University of Oslo for the finals together with 16 other students from the 4th - 8th April. 992 students from 105 schools have taken part in the event. (See here for more information) The results of the second round of the Abel Maths [...]
MUN Conference 2016
MUN 2016 - in the General Assembly The three-day conference began on Saturday 30th January and ended on Monday 1st of February, taking place immediately after the Red Cross First Aid PBL. Model United Nations is a simulation that adopts the way that the UN itself functions and aims to make students aware of the world’s most important trending global issues and problems. In this years [...]
On the Death of Giulio Regeni
United World College International would like to extend their condolences to Giulio Regeni’s family, friends and all those that were touched by him in the UWC community and beyond. In 2005 Giulio Regeni obtained a scholarship from the Friuli Venezia Giulia Italian regional government which enabled him to attend the UWC-USA in New Mexico. This experience inspired him to pursue his university education in England, where he [...]
Neil Davis Friluftsliv PBL
Neil Davis Memorial PBL - getting ready to go The intention of the inaugural Neil Davis Memorial PBL was to get students away from ski lifts, giving opportunity and attention to appreciating outdoor experiences in a wintery wilderness context. So it seemed somehow fitting that in the weeks preceding the 'Project-based learning' week, we had experienced a large snowfall, then a week of strangely warm weather with [...]
Red Cross First Aid PBL
The Red Cross First Aid PBL (project-based learning) is a 12-hour course delivered over three days, organised by the Red Cross First Aid team at the College. The team consists of twenty-three second-years who will have been receiving weekly training for many months. Each year, all the first years participate in the First Aid PBL. Wednesday 27th of January was the start date this year. The PBL was something [...]