UWC South East Asia (UWCSEA) is an individual from the UWC development. UWC schools, universities and projects convey a testing and transformative instructive experience to an assorted scope of understudies, moving them to make a more serene and practical future. UWC was established in 1962 by the German educationalist Kurt Hahn who had a dream of uniting youngsters to dodge future clash, (for example, World War II and the Cold War) by offering an instructive ordeal in view of shared learning, coordinated effort and seeing so that the understudies would go about as champions of peace. All the UWC schools universities stay focused on this objective today, yet have extended their scope to grasp the pressures and clashes that exist inside and in addition between social orders.
UWC has 15 schools and colleges crosswise over five mainlands. The greater part of the schools enlist understudies just for Grades 11 and 12 (the IB Diploma). In any case, Waterford Kamhlaba enlists understudies from Grade 6 to 12, while United World College Maastricht and UWCSEA select much more youthful kids. The schools and universities of the UWC development are joined by their regular mission to make training a power to join individuals, countries and societies for peace and an economical future.
UWCSEA has two grounds - the first Dover Campus close Clementi in the south-west part of the island and the more up to date East Campus in Tampines in the north east. UWCSEA has bit by bit extended subsequent to the Dover Campus opened in 1971 to end up a K–12 global school of more than 5,500 students.Both grounds are full members of Round Square, an overall association of more than 100 schools that was likewise established by Kurt Hahn.
Both UWCSEA grounds are composed into partitioned school areas - more youthful understudies are in Infant and Junior School (now and again called the Primary School, for a very long time 4–11 years) and after that there is a three-year Middle School program (for a very long time 11–14 years). The most recent four years of school are called High School - in the past the High School was otherwise called Upper School and Senior School. Guests can tell which segment of the school an understudy is in on account of the diverse hued polo shirts the understudies wear - light blue for Primary School, green for Middle School, dim blue for IGCSE and white for IB Diploma.
Understudies in K1 to Grade 8 take after a UWCSEA-planned educational modules, and afterward take two-year (I)GCSE and IB Diloma courses in High School. UWCSEA Dover has been approved to offer the IB Diploma since 1977 and UWCSEA East since 2012. Both grounds are IB World Schools and are likewise Cambridge Examination Centers and Edexcel Approved Centers. UWCSEA is one of the biggest IB Diploma schools on the planet, with a graduating class every year that is bigger than the whole High School in numerous littler universal schools.
The grounds are discrete money related elements; both UWCSEA grounds are enlisted as a philanthropy in Singapore. Philanthropy enrollment numbers: Dover Campus: 00142 East Campus: 02104
UWCSEA Dover and UWCSEA East are both additionally enrolled with the Singapore government's Council for Private Education.
In 2008, in the wake of turning into the principal establishment supporting a Foreign System School in Singapore to be allowed Institute of Public Character status (IPC), the UWCSEA Foundation was built up.
The Foundation initiated dynamic gathering pledges in 2010, and all assets raised are scattered back to the College inside 12 months. Serving both the East and Dover grounds similarly, blessings are coordinated by territories of most need and where the effect will be the best. This incorporates raising assets for grants, instructor proficient advancement and educational programs development and in addition ecological and maintainability activities, for example, Solar for Dover and Adopt-a-Tree.[10]
Despite the fact that the Foundation was set up as particular legitimate element to UWCSEA, its needs and projects are in accordance with the needs and the vital arrangement of the College.
UWCSEA's Center for International Education (additionally called The Center) sorts out proficient learning occasions for instructors crosswise over Asia and from further abroad.
Built up in 2011 on the recently developed East Campus, The Center hosts occasions, for example, gatherings, workshops, affirmation courses and gatherings, and acquires persuasive speakers and mentors. The Dover Campus gathering focus offices will initiate operations in January 2016.
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew formally opened the Singapore International School (SIS), a partner individual from the United World College development, on the site of the first St. John's School in 1971. Sister got to be UWCSEA, and a full individual from the UWC development in 1975. The school was started and arranged by Lord Mountbatten, and in addition parent and second Chair of the Board Roy Lutton, different folks and invested individuals at the season of the British Army withdrawal from Singapore. It was planned to give an instruction to offspring of exiles in Singapore.
The school was initially for High School understudies just, and offered A-Levels. In 1981, the A-level project was ceased and the IB Diploma was received as the sole leaving capability. In 1998, the main K1 class began, which was the aftereffect of having been asked by the Singapore government to extend the school to suit more understudies in 1996.
In 2008 the East Campus respected its first understudies and the first grounds got to be known as the Dover Campus. The school worked for quite a long while in a renovated fabricating rented from the Singapore Ministry of Education in Ang Mo Kio, in the focal piece of Singapore. The interim grounds in Ang Mo Kio shut in 2011 when all understudies moved to the recently manufactured office in Tampines.
The recently assembled East Campus building was opened in Tampines in 2011, formally opened by the Singapore Minister for Education Mr Heng Swee Keat. The principal Grade 12 class moved on from the East Campus with the IB Diploma in 2014.
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