Atlantic College

United World College of the Atlantic
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type of school	United World Colleges
founding	1962
place	St Donat's Castle , Llantwit Major
Unitary Authority	Vale of Glamorgan
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51 ° 24 '5 "  N , 3 ° 31' 57"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '5 "  N , 3 ° 31' 57"  W.
student	350
management	Peter T. Howe
Website	www.atlanticcollege.org

The United World College of the Atlantic ( Atlantic College for short ) is the oldest of now seventeen United World Colleges , a group of schools that teach tolerance and social responsibility through international education and social commitment. Sixteen to eighteen year old students from around 80 nations take the International Baccalaureate after two years of school .

history

In 1956 Kurt Hahn (including founder of the schools in Salem and Gordonstoun ) was invited to speak at the NATO Defense College. There he experienced the cooperation and friendship of people from countries that had recently been enemies in World War II . Hahn came up with the idea of ​​bringing young people together in a similar way in order to overcome the hostility of the Cold War . The young people should be old enough to be rooted in their respective cultures, but still open to new ideas. Students from all countries should be selected on the basis of their academic performance, social engagement and personal achievement and regardless of financial means or their respective social, political, cultural, religious and ethnic background.

Funded by generous donations (u. A. By the French businessman Antonin Besse ) and inspired by Hahn's ideas succeeded in 1960 a group led by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare and Air Marshal Sir Lawrance Darvall , the St. Donat's Castle , a castle in Wales to acquire and there To open the Atlantic College in 1962 and to operate it according to Hahn's concepts.

Atlantic College was one of the first seven schools in the world in 1968 and the first in the UK to follow an international curriculum. In 1971 Atlantic College was the first school in the world to introduce the International Baccalaureate as a sole degree. At the college, new subjects such as environmental systems, world religion or peace and conflict studies were and are being developed.

Atlantic class 21 lifeboat

Atlantic College has been a major driver in the development of voluntary emergency services in the UK. In 1963 one of the first nine coastal lifeboat stations (ILB stations) of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) was opened at Atlantic College. The lifeboats were and still are manned by teachers and students from the college. Under the direction of the then headmaster Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare, fast lifeboats were developed for use near the coast. The designation of today's RNLI lifeboats (B class Atlantic) reflects this contribution to development. The RNLI's first female captain was also a student at Atlantic College.

Location and campus

View of the castle

The school is located on the Welsh Atlantic coast, a half hour drive from Cardiff . The heart of the college is St. Donat's Castle , built in the 12th century . On the 60 hectare campus are u. a. seven boarding school buildings, in which 40 young people from different countries live and learn together, supervised by "houseparents".

School concept

The majority of Atlantic College students are scholarship holders who are selected by their respective national committees on the basis of demonstrated social commitment, openness to other cultures and academic achievement. The academic level is high and the graduate's International Baccalaureate exam results are regularly well above the international average.

As at all United World Colleges, great importance is attached to extracurricular engagement, intercultural understanding and social responsibility, be it in one of the compulsory services (typical for Atlantic College are its three sea rescue services) or in the multitude of activities carried out by the students be organized by yourself. Many graduates have a lifelong bond with Atlantic College.

Well-known alumni

• Sir Howard Newby (* 1947), Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool , President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
• Martin Hellwig (* 1949), professor of economics and former chairman of the Monopolies Commission
• Pentti Kouri (1949–2009), Finnish professor of economics at Stanford and Yale Universities , investment manager and art collector
• Marjan Šetinc (* 1949), Slovenian politician and ambassador a. a. in UK and Poland
• Jorma Ollila (* 1950), Finnish entrepreneur, former CEO and Chairman of Nokia , currently Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia
• Seppo Honkapohja (* 1951), board member of the Finnish Central Bank , Professor of International Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge .
• Chris Morgan (1952–2008), BBC Welsh journalist
• Hansjörg Haber (* 1953), German diplomat and u. a. from 2015 to 2016 Head of Delegation (Ambassador) of the European Union in Turkey.
• Kari Blackburn (1954–2007), Regional Executive Editor Africa and Middle East at BBC World Service
• Aernout Van Lynden (* 1954), former war correspondent in the Middle East , Balkans for SKYnews
• Hakeem Belo-Osagie (* 1955), Nigerian investor and former CEO of United Bank for Africa
• Spyros Niarchos (* 1955), heir to the Greek shipping company
• Luis Argudín (* 1955), Mexican painter and professor for the theory of art.
• Fernando Alonso (aeronautical engineer) (* 1956), Spanish head of the Airbus Test Flight Division (crew member of the A380 maiden flight)
• Jonathan Michie (* 1957), Director of the Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College , University of Oxford and founder of the Manchester United supporters' trust
• Pedro Alonso (* 1957), founder of the Manhica Center of Health Research in Mozambique , Director of the Barcelona Center for International Health Research and Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Malaria Eradication Research Agenda
• Julie Payette (born 1963), Canadian astronaut (1982)
• Didier Stainier (* 1963), Belgian developmental biologist and since 2012 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
• Willem-Alexander (* 1967), King of the Netherlands
• Johannes Brandrup (* 1967), German actor
• Eluned Morgan (* 1967), Welsh politician, Member of the European Parliament (1994–2009), in 1994 as the youngest member
• Saba Douglas-Hamilton (* 1970), Kenyan conservationist , documentary filmmaker and television maker
• Hanno Kube (* 1970), German legal scholar
• Jakob von Weizsäcker (* 1970), German economist and politician
• Wangechi Mutu (* 1972), Kenyan artist
• Louise Leakey (* 1972), Kenyan-British paleoanthropologist
• Andreas Loewe (* 1973), German provost of St. Paul's Cathedral , Australia, music historian and theologian
• Felicitas von Lovenberg (* 1974), German journalist, literary critic and writer, head of "Literature and Literary Life" at the FAZ
• Paula Edda Klein (* 1995), German-British actress

literature

• Roy Denning: The story of St. Donat's Castle and Atlantic College . D. Brown and Sons, Cowbridge 1983, ISBN 0-905928-26-1 .

Web links

Commons : Atlantic College, Wales  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Atlantic College website
• German UWC Foundation for more information on the selection process and the German scholarship program

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leadership team. Retrieved September 23, 2019 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} David Sutcliffe: The First Twenty Years of the United World Colleges . In: Roy Denning: The story of St. Donat's Castle and Atlantic College . D. Brown and Sons, Cowbridge 1983, pp. 85-118, here p. 88.
3. ↑ Howard C. Jones: WR Hearst and St. Donat’s . In: Roy Denning: The story of St. Donat's Castle and Atlantic College . D. Brown and Sons, Cowbridge 1983, pp. 69-83, here p. 83.
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7. ↑ ^{a b c} RNLI - Role of Atlantic College in RNLI History. Archived from the original on August 24, 2007 ; accessed on June 12, 2010 (English). 
8. ^ Daniel Fisher, Western Mail: A student experiment that saved thousands of sailors. Wales Online, July 12, 2010, accessed July 30, 2010 . 
9. ^ University of Liverpool - curriculum vitae. (PDF; 228 kB) July 2007, archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; accessed on June 13, 2010 (English). 
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20. ↑ Christian Schubert: Spanish flight test engineer to fix A400 defects . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 30, 2015, p. 22.
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24. ^ Canadian Space Agency - Biography. Retrieved June 12, 2010 (English). 
25. ↑ King Willem-Alexander (biography). Retrieved September 23, 2019 . 
26. ↑ David Sarkar: Interview with Johannes Brandrup. In: Planet Interview. March 8, 2004, accessed August 19, 2014 . 
27. ↑ BBC news: MEP Eluned Morgan wants to step down. October 14, 2008, accessed June 13, 2010 . 
28. ↑ Saba Douglas-Hamilton - Bio. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; accessed on June 13, 2010 (English). 
29. ↑ Wangechi Mutu Takes Over New York's Metropolitan Museum , The African Exponent , August 29, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019.
30. ↑ FAZ.Net: The editorial. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011 ; Retrieved June 12, 2010 . 
31. ^ Paula Edda Klein. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .