09 Sep Welcome Class of 2023!
Our DP1 students arrive today. Another cohort starting its journey of becoming changemakers!...
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02 Sep UWC for Afghan Youth
The dramatic events happening in Afghanistan have shaken all of us. Like many of the countless humanitarian crises we are witnessing, we know that this will bring enormous repercussions on the possibility for youth—especially girls—to get access to education. Even those that manage to flee...
30 Aug UWCer Effecting Change on University Campus
Our alumna Eunice is leading change at her current college campus! "If you want to make an impact, you have to be in the position to make that impact". That's why she has taken on a leadership position at her university! Read her story and...
22 Jul Summer break
Summer break is around the corner! UWC Maastricht is closed until 30 August. We look forward to seeing students and staff back in the new school year! ...
21 Jul Video: UWC Maastricht students about a more sustainable and healthier world
LIOF (regional development company of the Province of Limburg) interviewed our students about their view on a more sustainable and healthier society. Of course they spoke about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And ours students shared concrete ideas for making the world a better...
08 Jul emPOWERgirls Story: The wider the range of voices on campus, the stronger our understanding of female empowerment
In our 'emPOWERgirls Stories' we highlight the power women in UWC Maastricht's community. This week you can read about Ebony Burnside , who is working as English teacher and Head of Year at UWC Maastricht.
After my two years as a UWC student in Hong Kong, I enrolled at a women's college for university. While I had always been privileged to have strong female role models in my life, the experience of being surrounded, every day, by women -- students, professors, administrators and alumni -- who were passionate and accomplished was transformative for me. I learned to become a feminist on my own terms there, as I was reminded daily that there is no one right way to be a woman. Now, as a teacher at UWC Maastricht, I find myself being most grateful for our students who push me to continue this crucial journey. They challenge me to examine myself, rethink my habits, broaden my perspectives and, yes, often the students who do this are our female-identifying students. When we look at schools, we tend to measure their success by the opportunities that the staff provides for the students, but I am grateful every day for the UWC education the students provide for me. I am grateful for our students who push us to continue to examine our ideas about feminism, demanding that it be both intersectional and inclusive. The wider the range of voices we have on campus, the stronger our understanding of female empowerment will be.Ebony Burnside | UWC Maastricht, English teacher and Head of Year
08 Jul Tradition to hang out flag after graduation
In the Netherlands students hang out a Dutch flag slung with a rucksack or other bag, to celebrate their high school graduation. So what if you went to UWC Maastricht the past years, are still in the Netherlands staying with a host family and just...
01 Jul emPOWERgirls Story: Providing young women with education changes everything
In our 'emPOWERgirls Stories' we highlight the power women in UWC Maastricht's community. This week you can read about Larissa Stutterheim, who is working at UWC Maastricht as English teacher.
There is an activity I often did with my Environmental Systems and Societies class as part of our revision for exams. Over the course of two years, we had discussed so many global environmental issues, as well as the policies and initiatives to address them, and the ways in which so many of these elements were connected. I asked them to create mind maps for the different units of study focused on different global concerns. I then asked them to make connections, to indicate how different issues, like water scarcity and pollution and soil degradation and overpopulation, were connected. And then the most important question was always “Where do we begin?” The realization that so often struck so many students during this activity was that the best place to begin is with the education of girls and young women. Providing young women with education changes everything. Not only does education empower these girls to take charge of their own bodies, their future, and their communities, but it has a monumental ripple effect on the economic, environmental, and systemic well-being of their communities. ------ Another way in which I have witnessed female empowerment in education is through an ongoing student-led project at UWCM that I have been lucky enough to take part in supporting. Why Are We Still Talking About This? is a project through which a group of our female students tell their stories on stage of their experience of being a woman. Their monologues, spoken word poetry, and skits convey stories of being objectified, overlooked, held back, taken for granted, silenced, and assaulted, but they also convey a powerful commitment to speaking up and standing tall, to questioning the status quo and rejecting stifling social stereotypes, breaking through stigma, protecting each other, and taking ownership of their life and their story. The project offers these girls the opportunity to create and claim their own truth and to empower others to do the same. It also awakens their male peers to the layers of experience that have shaped them and their worldview, offering them insight into the struggles and challenges of being a woman.Larissa Stutterheim| UWC Maastricht, English Teacher
26 Jun UWCM Alumna in Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad!
Helen Tesfamariam (23) was born in Sudan. From the age of twelve she saved up to make the crossing to Europe. When she was seventeen, she unexpectedly received a scholarship to study at UWC Maastricht. It was the start of a new chapter of her...
