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United World College Maastricht Opens

29-09-2009 om 13:27 by Maastricht Region Branding Foundation

The United World College Maastricht is holding its  opening Ceremony on Wednesday October 21st 2009,  at UWC Maastricht, Nijverheidsweg 25, 6227 AL Maastricht from 9-11 am.
The ceremony will take place in the presence of Tim Toyne-Sewell, Chair of the International Board United World Colleges. UWC is the only global educational movement that brings together students from all over the world – selected on personal merit, irrespective of race, religion, politics and the ability to pay – with the explicit aim of fostering peace and international understanding.

The new school is a merger of two existing schools, International School Maastricht, and the International Primary School Joppenhof.  UWC Maastricht currently has 525 students which will increase to 950 by 2015. The majority will be students are day students, with 200 boarding students selected through the National Committee system. The school is the first UWC to exist within the context of a national education system –al l students will be partly funded by the Dutch government, receiving the same funding as other students in the Netherlands.

The Dutch Minster of Education expects UWC Maastricht to act as a role model for other Dutch schools by imparting its passion for and expertise in learning through community service to the Dutch education system as a whole.

Tim Toyne Sewell, Chair of UWC International says “We are very pleased to welcome Maastricht to the UWC family. Making this a reality is the result of a lot of hard work by the Dutch Ministry of Education, the Province of Limburg and the City of Maastricht, to our partners Stichting LVO, Stichting Mosa Lira and of course the UWC National Committee of the Netherlands and the UWC Maastricht Project Team. We are particularly excited and proud about the role that UWC Maastricht will play in bringing UWC values to a national education system and that, like at our schools in Swaziland at Singapore students of all ages will benefit from a UWC education.”

Source: Meuse-Rhine Journal

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