From Homer’s poems to tourism in a globalised world: the evolution of hospitality, through the Caucasus and UWC.

Reasons why you should consider taking a gap year.

A welcome letter to whom it may correspond

“Stehind – stories behind the news – is a platform aimed at sharing authentic human experiences, in the belief that these have the power of shaping world societies to be more understandable and empathetic.” 

My first year’s toughest experience, and one of its best

Food as a union of people, nations and culture.

As one of the most discussed issues this year comes to an end, a recapitulation is done to track down the collaboration between Staff and Students to solve this issue

It is time for us to move on from all those things we do not like about our school, time for us to think and reflect upon the thought of what we want this place to be like for the years to come.

Free space for creative expression, counter-cultural place of resistance in Maastricht.

We are not the only one: exploring the insights of the Mandril, many parallelisms were seen between life and idealism in the free culture zone and at UWC.

With the constant weight of goodbyes, we would believe that the process of saying goodbye becomes much easier. However, with each goodbye we bid, it touches a different part of us like how every person we encounter affects us in various ways.

We should show our attachment and love to our country by acknowledging our departure and doing what is within our reach and beyond in order to soften the impact of our physical distance from home.

My gaze shifts and I stare out of the tiny window to my left, I see the sun slowly sinking beneath the clouds and I start to think about the country I left behind.

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” depicts the journey out of the cave in order to come face to face with our ignorance.

A Feminist play to the community, from the community.

What the community has to say about feminism

The answer to this ‘how’, I’d wager, can be found in his driving sense of purpose. Yes, ‘purpose’. An innocuous word, I know. Just two simple syllables. Yet right now, by which I mean today, aujourd’hui, hoy, vandaag, there is no single more important word in the English language.

On 8th March, International Women’s Day, students of UWCiM ”rose-filled” Mostar by marching for ”emancipation and empowerment of womxn regardless of their ethnic background”.

Are the complaints about the food quality in Mensa reasonable? The opinion of a teacher.

On the 7th of February students from the whole of the Netherlands gathered in the Haag to protest for a sustainable future. More than a hundred students from UWCM joined the protest.