UWC vs HADES

fiona_1
Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:23:40 +0000

The United World Colleges (UWC) are a group of twelve international schools. Founded during the Cold War, the United World College movement aims to promote understanding between different nations through education and through interaction between young people from different countries, living and working together. UWC selects students from around the globe at a pre-university level, based on merit, regardless of their financial status and ethnic, religious or educational background making UWC scholarships highly competitive. The schools are very famous worldwide since they give the students the opportunity to develop a global and tolerant mind combined with strong academic skills. UWC graduates have access to a wide array of opportunities to further develop their intellectual interests at many universities and organisations worldwide.

The UWC international organisation is a British based foundation that comprises twelve colleges in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the United States, Venezuela and the United Kingdom, and, as of August 2006, newly opened eleventh and twelfth Colleges in Costa Rica and Bosnia and Herzegovina; National Committees in more than 130 countries; a network of more than 36,000 graduates from more than 181 countries[1], and an International Office in London. The United World Colleges usually accept students who are between 16 to 18 years old, with exception of the Colleges in Singapore and Swaziland, which also accept younger students. Each UWC typically comprises between 200 and 300 students from about 90 different countries.