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The Davis United World College Scholars Program is the world’s largest privately funded international scholarship program. [1] [2] It awards need-based scholarship funding, aka the Shelby Davis Scholarship, to graduates of schools and colleges in the United World Colleges (UWC) movement to study at 106 select partner universities in the United States.
The United World Colleges (UWC) is an international network of schools and educational programmes with the shared aim of "making education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future."
UWC Robert Bosch College is a college in Freiburg, Germany. It is among the newest members of the United World Colleges (UWC) movement, one of eighteen colleges around the world, having started accepting students in September 2014. [ 1 ]
The University of the Western Cape (UWC; Afrikaans: Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland) is a public research university in Bellville, near Cape Town, South Africa. The university was established in 1959 by the South African apartheid government as a university for Coloured people only.
Most students are nominated to attend UWC Mahindra College via their UWC National Committees. Indian students, residents and PIO/OCI students can apply via the United World College Committee of India. The selection process is rigorous, [citation needed] with an acceptance rate of 1,5%. The application process for Indian students starts in June ...
The United World College of the Adriatic (also known as UWC Adriatic, UWCAd, or in Italian, Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico) [1] [2] is an international school in Italy, and a member of the United World Colleges, a global educational movement that brings together students from all over the world with the aim to foster peace and international understanding.
Mountbatten was an enthusiastic UWC supporter and encouraged heads of state, politicians and personalities throughout the world to share his interest. [4] He was personally involved in founding what became the third UWC – the United World College of South East Asia – in Singapore in 1975, [ 11 ] following the founding of the second College ...
The mission of the UWC movement and of the school is to "make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future". The first United World College, the United World College of the Atlantic , was founded in 1962 by Kurt Hahn , who had previously established Outward Bound and the Duke of Edinburgh Award , as ...