1 Million NOK
Representatives from Sparebankane Sogn & Fjordane and our local bank foundations today formally handed over a donation of 600.000 NOK earmarked for IB places for students from our county, a project starting in 2015, supported by Dale Videregåande School. Local businesses gave 400.000 NOK for the same project. A process of selection for these places will be held in spring 2015 in tandem with the Norwegian National Committee [...]
A Force for Peace
On Saturday 26th October NRK evening news highlighted the relevance of education as a force for peace. The story focuses on how Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz, who have shared experiences with this year's Nobel Peace Winner Malala Yousafzai, practise her vision for a better world. Shazia and Kainat are currently students at UWC Atlantic College. Here is a link to the news item. Their section starts [...]
UWC Meetings in Canada
Last week, the annual UWC Heads, International Council and Boards meetings were held at Victoria and Pearson College on Vancouver Island. Many interesting discussions were held during the conference - from distinctiveness and quality to alumni impact, from admissions to post 2015 planning. UWC Red Cross Nordic was represented by its members of the UWC International Council: Pär Stenbäck (Chair of RCN's Council), Tove Veierød (Chair of RCN's Board), [...]
Global Concerns
Global Concern Days at the College use invited guest speakers, workshops and student-developed projects to broaden and deepen the understanding of participants about a particular issue. On October 27th, we had the Humanitarian Global Concern. With two months of planning by the organizing team of the students, supervised by the staff, the day focused on the theme of 'Children of War and Crime'. The organizing [...]
Disruptive Innovation
On the 22nd of October, five students from RCN, participated in an online panel discussion with students from twelve different UWCs. The debate was facilitated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Disruptive Innovation Festival, which aims to bring together thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses, makers, learners and doers to catalyse system-level change for a future economy. The overarching topic of the discussion was revolutionizing education in the United World Colleges, [...]
Stop the Violence
On Wednesday we were visited by 48 ninth-grade students from three different schools in Svelgen and Bremanger, a district two hours north of the College. The visit came about through our cooperation with the Sogn og Fjordane Red Cross, who organize events and activities for people to highlight the effects of violence and teach how to develop tools to work locally against violence. A day of activities [...]