27 million – that’s the number of people anticipated to be in bondage as slaves in the world today. A21 is an organisation committed to abolishing injustice in the 21st century, through raising awareness of the issue of human trafficking, and finding protection for those who are made a victim of it. On Saturday 18th April, the A21 Campaign ran actions in 5 cities across Norway: Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, [...]

On Friday 10th April, the Annual Report - a printed encapsulation of our work which serves both as a reflection on the year gone by and the direction in which we are going – was released to coincide with the annual UWC Red Cross Nordic Council meeting. To view it, click here.

Following on from the success of the Support Staff trip in the summer of 2012 to UWC Mostar, a group of our current Support Staff headed to Bergen in week 16 for some professional development. As part of their trip, they visited Åsane Folkehøgskole, major suppliers in Bergen and attended a series of lectures on catering including sessions led by Arne Brimi and Berit Nordstrand. Please find [...]

The RCN Student Council comprises Representatives from each House, 'Aspect Workers' who sit on the Standing Committees, a UWC RCN Board Representative, a Communications Representative and the Chair.  The Student Council (SC) holds meetings every week-end, House Reps meet each week, and the Committees meet monthly, as does the SC with the Education Management team. Student Council is clearly a demanding EAC, requiring considerable commitment to student welfare across all aspects of life at RCN. This [...]

The SaFuGe team have been out and about working in the local community. After a recent project one of the members writes, SAFUGE works in farms in the community such as the one we call the Yellow Farm just outside school. The owner is Leif Jarle Espedal for whom we have set up fences, cleared forest, cut trees and cleaned a barn. We also dismantled an old [...]

Ever since his days at Atlantic College, Marius Hauge (AC 1967-9) has been serving “spiffing refreshments” as he called them. Whether it be at the sea-front down by the Bristol Channel or in the Dining Hall at AC, Marius would create a happy atmosphere to any event, big or small. Marius as a grown man was a UWC enthusiast known for crossing the Skagerrak (a strait running [...]