Pearson College UWC

The Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (Pearson College UWC) is one of fifteen United World Colleges (UWC) around the globe. It is named after the late Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson, champ of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, and early supporter of the College. The mission of the UWC development and of the school is to "make instruction a power to join individuals, countries and societies for peace and a maintainable future". The school takes after the International Baccalaureate educational modules, covering the last year of secondary school and a pre-college year for up to 100 understudies a year hailing from about 90 countries.

The chief of the College from 2006 to 2015 was David Hawley, an alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a trustee of the Council of International Schools. In April 2015, the College declared Hawley's successor, Désirée McGraw, a universally acclaimed institutional pioneer, the President of the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation, and a previous guide to the Prime Minister of Canada. 

The College's principle scholastic educational modules takes after the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program – Pearson was the main school in Canada to embrace the Diploma Program by any stretch of the imagination. Understudies are likewise required to partake in group situated administrations, social exercises, and game occasions. A highlight of the scholastic year is the expert move, music and social appear, "One World", drove by a skilled backstage team and pulling in a large number of gathering of people individuals from Victoria and the encompassing groups. 

Understudies must be chosen by their separate UWC National Committees taking into account their legitimacy, guarantee and potential. Each of the more than 140 National Committees makes suggestions for admission to the College freely, and as per their individual choice systems. Confirmation is in this manner to a great degree aggressive, and comes to over an expansive range of financial differences. Sponsorship for these grants originates from a blend of associations, governments and private contributors. 

The College is situated on the shores of Pedder Bay, close Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. The College gives a reasonable area to the investigation of the earth, because of the encompassing forests and the adjacent Race Rocks Marine Protected Area, a natural preservation zone kept up by the College. 

There are 5 private houses that house all understudies of the College and some employees . All understudy houses are blended sex, with young men on one story and young ladies on the other, and understudies live in shared rooms of 4 to 5 individuals; suppers are served by a solitary cafeteria. 

The College's vicinity to Pedder Bay permits a wide scope of waterfront project offerings. An armada of sail pontoons, kayaks, kayaks, and Scuba plunging gear are put away on the docks and in the coasting sea life science building. 

Late graduates have set in a percentage of the world's top colleges, and a few graduated class are have ended up eminent pioneers in human rights, global advancement, business, law, science and other fields. The most widely recognized college destinations for late understudies after graduation were, all together, McGill University, the University of Toronto, and Harvard University.Other schools that every now and again register alumni of the system incorporate Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton. 

Seventeen graduating understudies have been chosen as Loran Scholars,the most astounding number of any single optional school. In the wake of leaving the school, thirteen understudies have gone ahead to win Rhodes Scholarships. After graduation, understudies are qualified to take an interest in the Shelby Davis Scholarship program, which stores undergrad study in light of need at select American colleges.