The United World College of South East Asia (abbreviation: UWCSEA) is an independent, international school in Singapore. The school has two campuses, Dover and East. UWCSEA East moved to its permanent campus in 2010, and will have expanded to full capacity in 2015. UWCSEA is the largest of the 13 United World College (UWC) schools, a movement founded by the German educationalist Kurt Hahn with the mission of bringing together students from all over the world and developing them as global citizens. The UWC movement aims to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.
Since its founding, UWCSEA has offered full secondary school education. In the late-1990s the school expanded and now also offers full primary education. Today the Dover Campus takes students from the age of four. The number of students on the Dover Campus (Kindergarten 1 - Grade 12) is over 2,900. Once the UWCSEA East Campus is at full capacity in 2015, the additional 2,500 available places will swell the number of students to 5,400.
UWCSEA is somewhat different from many of its sister colleges in the UWC movement, most of which are wholly boarding institutions which offer only a two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for mainly scholarship students of around 16–19 years of age. UWCSEA has always been a full secondary school taking in students from age 11, and has offered primary education since the late-1990s. While the majority of students are children of expatriates in Singapore, there are also around 200 boarders at the Dover campus, most of whom come from neighbouring countries in Asia or are children of expatriates living in the region. A small percentage of the students at the College come on scholarships organised by UWC National Committees from around the world. There are around 70 scholars aged 11–19 at the school. Unlike most of the schools in the UWC movement, the majority of UWCSEA's pupils are fee-paying students. Singapore government policy prevents most citizens from attending international schools within the country, and therefore UWCSEA has the smallest percentage of local students of any UWC. There are over 20 nationalities represented on the staff.
UWCSEA was the first UWC to be invited to become a Round Square school, and is now a full member of the Round Square movement, which also shares a commitment to the principles of Kurt Hahn.
UWCSEA has high annual pass rates for GCSE and IB examinations. The Good Schools Guide International's review of the school, states that: "This school has a deservedly good reputation academically but offers far more than exam success to its students...This is not a school for those who would be happy to sit on the sidelines or for those with substantial educational needs.". UWCSEA was named on Lifestyle Boutique's "Top 10 Schools In The World".
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