UWCSEA EAST PROFILE 2013/2014 UWC mission
UWC Maastricht Maastricht, Netherlands
UWC Red Cross Nordic Flekke, Norway
The UWC movement makes education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.
UWCSEA educational goal We educate individuals to embrace challenge and take responsibility for shaping a better world.
UWC Pearson College Victoria, Canada
UWC mission in action
UWC Costa Rica Santa Ana, Costa Rica
Global Concerns Global Concerns (GC) projects focus on communities and causes in developing nations outside Singapore. Students identify regional grassroots NGOs to support and then create events to raise awareness and funds for environmental, human rights and development projects in education and health. Examples of Global Concerns include Kuma Cambodia; Blue Dragon, Vietnam; Focus Africa and Because I’m a Girl, India.
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23 Global Concerns
local service partners
UWC Mahindra College Pune, India
UWC-USA Montezuma, New Mexico, USA
Local service Students are committed to building deep and sustained connections with the local community. All High School students engage in weekly, year-long service activities with local people and communities. These range from supporting disadvantaged children with their studies, to visiting dementia patients in a nursing home, to teaching life skills to former domestic workers who have been victims of violence.
Li Po Chun UWC Hong Kong SAR, China UWC Atlantic College Llantwit Major, UK
UWC South East Asia (UWCSEA) Singapore UWC Adriatic Duino, Italy
UWC in Mostar Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mbabane, Swaziland
There are 12 member schools across the globe, of which UWCSEA is the largest.
Project Week All Grade 11 students plan and organise independent travel in small groups to destinations within Asia. Most trips involve service at a Global Concerns project but can also include an educational course or adventure expedition. In June 2013, the Class of 2014 organised themselves into 36 groups to visit 33 organisations in 11 countries. Projects included painting houses in Indonesia, teaching children to swim in Sri Lanka, working with the visually impaired in Vietnam, taking care of pandas in China, learning sign language in Cambodia and climbing Mt Kinabalu in Borneo.
Initiative for Peace The Initiative for Peace (IfP) programme is an annual conference that brings together youth from opposing sides of a conflict and builds human capacity in places such as Timor Leste and Sri Lanka. Each year a group of UWCSEA students from both campuses is selected as facilitators of this conference. They undergo a year of training in peace facilitation, negotiation and leadership from UWC alumni and visiting experts from the United Nations and NGOs. At the end of the year they travel to an area of former conflict and lead an intense
week of workshops with young people from across the divide, helping them to learn how they can instigate social change in their country.
Gap Year UWCSEA arranges gap year programmes based in India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. There are many opportunities for our graduates to work in ecology projects or with NGOs focused on human rights and education.
Non-award policy East Campus does not give individual achievement awards in academics, activities, service or other elements of the learning programme. This intentional, philosophical decision was made in order to promote an overall stronger community and as well as a spirit of solidarity on campus amongst students.
University Advising policies • we do not compute GPA or rank students • students are limited to 10 applications worldwide • predicted grades and recommendations are kept confidential
Student body 2013/2014
2,267 655 144
Other – 21.33%
France – 2.25% Canada – 2.38% Malaysia – 2.86%
students campus-wide
Korea – 3.30%
High School students
Japan – 4.23%
students in Class of 2014
Singapore – 4.93%
India – 23.39%
Australia – 8.11%
UK – 18.06%
College faculty
Scholars
Boarding
34 members of the East Campus High School are on scholarship, selected within their home country by UWC national committees or by UWCSEA, on the basis of academic potential, personal merit and potential to have a positive impact on the local and global community.
East Campus has a boarding house, with 161 students enrolled from boarders in Grade 8 to Grades 8 to 12 12. Students from over 42 nationalities live and work together in a vibrant community of learners. As well as participating fully in the UWCSEA learning programme, boarders have the opportunity to participate in cultural trips within Singapore and in other countries in the region. The UWCSEA boarding experience differs from some more traditional boarding schools, where students are based in a rural setting. Living in the centre of the large, but safe, city-state of Singapore, students can build independence as they are progressively given more freedom to explore the city without adult supervision, an excellent preparation for life at university and beyond.
Europe – 7
Africa – 7
Americas – 7 Asia – 13
US – 9.16%
161
6
17
Average years of teaching experience
IBDP Authorisation Team Chairs/ Consultants/ Members
Full-time teachers holding a Masters degree or higher
71
39% IBDP examiners
Curriculum
Dover IB Diploma results 2013
(I)GCSE (Grades 9 and 10)
UWCSEA East’s first cohort of IB Diploma candidates will graduate in May, 2014. For this year, UWCSEA Dover’s academic results from 2013 are included for reference.
Most students take eight examination subjects for (I)GCSE along with Physical Education and a further two subjects that help to ensure a balanced curriculum. The core examination subjects are English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, a non-English language, a choice of Humanities, a choice of a Science and a choice of an Arts subject.
Pass rate (2012)
Foundation IB (FIB)
78.5%
Worldwide
Students who join the College in Grade 10 take the FIB course, designed to prepare students for the rigours of the IB Diploma. Students take nine subjects: English, Mathematics, Global Perspectives, Integrated Humanities, Coordinated Sciences, Digital Perspectives, Foreign Language, the Arts and Physical Education.
IB Diploma IB Diploma students complete six subjects: three at Higher Level and three at Standard Level. A small number of students take four Higher Level subjects. Students also study Theory of Knowledge, submit an Extended Essay and participate in Creativity, Action and Service.
Language A: Language and Literature 2. Language B or ab initio Language B Ab initio 3. Individuals and Societies
4. Experimental Sciences
5. Mathematics 6. The Arts
UWCSEA
Average diploma score
29.8
36.5
Worldwide
IB subject offerings 1. Language A: Literature
99.4%
English, Indonesian (SL), Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Hindi (SL) and School Supported Self Taught Languages English, Chinese
Diploma score comparison UWCSEA
In addition to taking on challenging academics, students participate in a wide array of extracurricular activities that encourage physical, aesthetic and emotional maturity. This balancing of the five elements of UWCSEA’s learning programme (academics, activities, outdoor education, personal and social education and service) engenders a high calibre experience and fosters an environment promoting UWC’s mission and its values of intercultural understanding, responsibility and integrity, compassion and service and idealism in action.
Worldwide
8.5%
43–45
English (HL), Mandarin, French and Spanish Mandarin, French and Spanish Economics, Geography, History, Psychology, Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS) (SL) Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Design Technology, Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS) (SL) Mathematics (HL), Mathematics (SL), Mathematical Studies Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
UWCSEA
1.61% 17.5%
40–42
5.03% 42%
35–39
17.29% 24.5% 27.68%
30–34 5.3%
24–29 <24
26.95% 0% 21.44%
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UWCSEA students receiving a bilingual diploma
SAT scores The SAT was administrated to 179 members of the Class of 2013. All scores, including those from non-native speakers, are included. Range of middle 50%
Critical reading 619 560
Mean 690
Mathematics 610
673
750
Writing 570
631
700
University enrolment of UWCSEA Dover graduates 2011–2013 Asia
Ewha Woman’s University, Korea Hamamatsu Univ School of Medicine, Japan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University of Hong Kong International Christian University, Japan Keio University, Japan Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Manipal University, India National University of Singapore Seoul National University, Korea Singapore Institute of Management Singapore Management University Sophia University, Japan University of Tokyo, Japan Waseda University, Japan Yale NUS College, Singapore Yonsei University, Korea
Australia/New Zealand
University of Auckland Australian National University Bond University Monash University Queensland University of Technology University of Adelaide University of Melbourne University of New South Wales University of Sydney University of Tasmania
Canada
University of British Columbia McGill University University of Toronto Simon Fraser University University of Victoria
Europe
Amsterdam Univ College, Netherlands University College Cork, Ireland Delft Univ of Technology, Netherlands Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands École hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland IE University, Spain Jacobs University, Germany University of Oslo, Norway Les Roches, Switzerland Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland Sciences Po, France Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
United Kingdom
University of the Arts, London University of Bath University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of Cambridge Cardiff University Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design City University University College London University of Dundee Durham University University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh University of Exeter University of Hull Hult International Business School Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Keele University University of Kent King’s College London Kingston University Lancaster University University of Leeds Leeds Metropolitan University University of Liverpool London College of Communication London Metropolitan University London School of Economics Loughborough University University of Manchester Middlesex University Newcastle University University of Northumbria University of Nottingham University of Oxford Oxford Brookes University Queen Mary, University of London University of Reading Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Veterinary College University of St Andrews School of Oriental and African Studies University of Sheffield University of Southampton Southampton Solent University University of Stirling University of Surrey University of Warwick University of the West of England, Bristol University of Westminster University of York
United States
Academy of Art University Amherst College Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bentley University Berklee College of Music Boston College Boston University Brandeis University Brown University Bryant University Bucknell University University of California at Berkeley University of California at Los Angeles University of California Santa Barbara University of California Santa Cruz University of California San Diego Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Claremont McKenna College University of Chicago Colby College Colgate University Colorado College Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Drexel University Duke University Earlham College Emerson College Emory University Fashion Institute of Technology Franklin & Marshall College Fordham University The George Washington University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Grinnell College Harvard College Harvey Mudd College Hood College College of Idaho Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lewis & Cark College Loyola Marymount University Luther College Macalester College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Methodist University University of Michigan Middlebury College New York University Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Occidental College University of Oklahoma University of Oregon Pace University Parsons The New School for Design Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania Pomona College Pratt Institute Princeton University Randolph-Macon College Reed College Rhode Island School of Design Rice University University of Richmond University of Rochester Rutgers, State University of New Jersey St. John’s College Saint Louis University St. Olaf College University of San Francisco School of the Art Institute of Chicago Skidmore College Smith College University of Southern California Stanford University Swarthmore College Syracuse University Texas A&M University University of Texas, Austin Trinity College CT Tufts University Union College Vassar College University of Virginia Washington University in St. Louis University of Washington Wellesley College Wesleyan University Westminster College MO Wheaton College MA Whitman College Williams College University of Wisconsin, Madison Yale University 033COM-1314
University advisors
Ms Pamela Kelly Wetzell Head of University Advising pamela.kelly.wetzell@uwcsea.edu.sg Ms Joan Liu joan.liu@uwcsea.edu.sg Ms Shruti Tewari shruti.tewari@uwcsea.edu.sg
Administration
Mr Julian Whiteley Head of College Mr James Dalziel Head of East Campus Mr Nick Alchin High School Principal
UWC South East Asia, East Campus 1 Tampines Street 73 Singapore 528704 Tel. +65 6305 5344
Accreditation and membership
IB World School Registered with the Singapore Council for Private Education Round Square Overseas and National Associations of College Admissions Counselors
UWCSEA East CEEB no: 687190 UWCSEA East IB no: 4180