For a scholar, a UWC education provides a remarkable opportunity to gain qualifications that will set them on a lifelong path toward success, along the way developing the qualities and skills that will help them to enact the mission in their communities as their bias for action is enhanced.

As the world prepares for COP26 in November 2021, the 18 UWC schools and colleges have united to issue a joint commitment to tackling the threat of global climate change. Together, we have pledged to name how we intend to contribute to a resilient, net zero global economy that protects, values and rebuilds the natural world.

In 2020, under the leadership of Carma Elliot, College President, the College embarked on a review of our values, which were inherited from the UWC movement as a series of long sentences in an unusual mixture of values, dispositions and behaviours. The movement had reviewed and updated their model, but the College had yet to follow suit. From the start, the project was conceived as a ‘Values in Action’ project, which would result in not just a revised set of values, but clarity around the behaviours that would bring those values to life.

The IDEAS Hub at Dover and the newly established UWCSEA East Innovation ecosystem encourage students of all ages to internalise an innovator’s mindset, think critically and to connect and collaborate with their local community as they seek to create solutions to real-world issues.

During the week of 21 September, UWCSEA celebrated UWC Day in conjunction with monumental events to mark the 50th year anniversary.

Each year, contributions through the UWCSEA Annual Fund bring this impact to life by supporting key priorities in the areas of Our People, Our Programmes and Our Planet. The Annual Fund offers an opportunity for supporters at all levels to collectively make a meaningful and immediate difference in the lives of our students. Together, we can more ambitiously deliver on our mission to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.

Over the school break, students from UWCSEA Dover’s Alkene and Botany and UWCSEA East’s STEM team have been communicating with the UWCSEA alumni, over a variety of STEM fields including aerospace engineering, biochemistry and even neuroscience.

UWCSEA’s 50th anniversary theme is “there is more in us” and student group Epiphany wanted to add a creative aspect to the celebration by bringing this to life in a commemorative logo designed by students.