United World Colleges (or UWC) is an education movement comprising 12 international schools and colleges, national committees in more than 140 countries and a series of short educational programmes. Students are selected from around the globe based on their merit and potential. UWC schools, colleges and national committees offer scholarship and bursary schemes as well as accepting fee-paying students.
The UWC international organisation is a British based foundation and has 12 schools and colleges in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Netherlands; national committees in more than 140 countries; a portfolio of short programmes running in numerous countries; a network of more than 50,000 alumni from more than 181 countries, and an International Office in London.
In August 2011 a college was opened in Singapore creating two campuses, one in Dover and another in Tampines or, as it is better known, East. Nine UWC colleges teach the International Baccalaureate, with three schools in Singapore, the Netherlands and Swaziland which, on top of the IB, also teach a pre-16 syllabus to younger students. The now-closed UWC vocational college in Venezuela accepted students at tertiary level and tought a Higher Diploma in Farm Administration. Each UWC typically comprises between 200 and 300 students from about countries.
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