The College Profile 2011–2012

The CollegeOpened in 1971, UWCSEA is a member of the UWC movement, whose mission is to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. All 13 member schools and colleges follow Kurt Hahn’s philosophy in bringing together students from different nations, races, and religions to share a challenging and holistic educational experience.

UWCSEA is innovative in promoting the ideals of the UWC movement within a more traditional K–12 international school, one that caters predominantly for expatriate students but also includes students enrolled on full scholarships (some as early as Grade 8). All students, even the youngest, are expected to commit to the UWC mission and UWCSEA’s educational goal to educate individuals to embrace challenge and take responsibility for shaping a better world. UWCSEA is uniquely positioned to have a significant impact on a wide community.

The range of service programmes involving students of all ages reflects the success of an educational model designed to transform idealism into action. Students also have many opportunities to develop themselves through cultural activities and outdoor pursuits, including adventure expeditions. While English is the medium of instruction, students and staff come from a wide variety of nationalities and backgrounds, forming a vibrant and enthusiastic community with a strong emphasis on learning, within and beyond the classroom.

CalendarUWCSEA operates on a trimester calendar with terms beginning on 15 August, 9 January and 16 April. Throughout the school year, classes are held on a weekly schedule from Monday to Friday and are 40–80 minutes in length. These rotate on a weekly schedule.

Student bodyUWCSEA has two campuses with a total of 4,381 students. Dover Campus currently educates all pre-university level students with a total of 2,955 students

in grades pre-kindergarten through 12 from 75 different countries. Five continents are represented, with approximately 49% of students from Asia, 29% from Europe, 1% from Africa, 12% from the Americas and 9% from Australia and the Pacific. The Upper School and Senior School (Grades 9–12) enrol 1,249 students. In Grades 7–12, there are 181 students who are boarders. Residential life offers students an opportunity to live and learn in a diverse community that affords many cross-cultural experiences.

Nearly 60 members of the Senior School (Grades 11–12) are on scholarship, selected through a system of UWC volunteer National Committees in over 120 countries. National Committee scholars are selected within their home country on the basis of academic potential and personal merit, regardless of their background or ability to pay. To make this possible, funds are raised by the UWCs from graduates, friends, foundations, business, non-governmental organisations and governments. For the class of 2012, 23 National Committee scholars are enrolled from Aceh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, East Timor, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, Netherlands, Peru, Senegal, Sierra Leone, USA, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

99% of UWCSEA students enrol in post-secondary institutions around the world. The 308 members of the class of 2011 enrolled at colleges and universities in a number of different countries. The class of 2012 totals 316: 186 women and 130 men.

UWCSEA now has a second campus, UWCSEA East, with enrolment of 1,429 students from K1–Grade 10. This campus will grow to become a full K–12 school, with its first IB Diploma students graduating in 2014.

CurriculumUpper School (Grades 9, 10 and Foundation IB)GCSE/IGCSE (Grades 9 and 10) In Grades 9 and 10, students follow the internationally recognized GCSE/IGCSE courses. Most students take eight examination subjects with a basic core of English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, a non-English language, a choice of a Science, a choice of an

President of the UWC movement Honorary President of UWC movementHer Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan Nelson Mandela

Administration University Counsellors EmailMr. Julian Whiteley, Head of College Mr. John Bush jbu@uwcsea.edu.sgMr. Fraser Cairns, Head of Dover Campus Ms. Julie Davidson jda@uwcsea.edu.sg Ms. Di Smart, Principal, High School Dover Dr. Linda De Flavis ldf@uwcsea.edu.sg Mr. Gary Seston, Vice Principal Pastoral, Senior School Dover Mr. Sean McAuley sem@uwcsea.edu.sgDr. James Dalziel, Head of East Campus Ms. Pamela Kelly Wetzell pkw@uwcsea.edu.sg

UWCSEA CEEB no: 687229 1207 Dover Road, Singapore 139654 UWCSEA IB no: 000040 Tel +65 6419 9349 Fax +65 6778 5506 www.uwcsea.edu.sg

aesthetics subject, and a choice of a Humanities (plus a double period per week of Physical Education). Students then make a further two choices from a wide range of subjects, to ensure that the principle of a broad-based curriculum is maintained.

Foundation IB (Grade 10) The Foundation IB course is offered to students who come to the college at the age of fifteen, too late to join the GCSE course but too early to be ready for the two years of the full IB Diploma Programme. These students take a preliminary year of IB studies in Grade 10, which prepares them for the rigours of the IB Diploma course in the Senior School. All students study English; Mathematics; Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge; Economics and Business Studies; History or Geography; Coordinated Sciences; and Information Technology. Students can also choose from among Art, Drama or Music and between Physical Education and a foreign language, including French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese.

Senior School (Grades 11 and 12)The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma The IB Diploma provides a rigorous and challenging academic programme taught over Grades 11 and 12 and leading to externally marked final examinations. To obtain the IB Diploma, students must complete six subjects and a curriculum core, which includes a course in Theory of Knowledge, an independent research and writing project known as the Extended Essay, and a minimum of 150 hours of extracurricular activities involving Creativity, Action and Service. A small number of students elect to take seven subjects. Grades in each subject range from a low of 1 (very poor) to a high of 7 (excellent). More information about the IB Diploma Programme can be found at www.ibo.org.

About 99% of students in the class of 2012 are IB Diploma candidates. For the class of 2011, 73 candidates were awarded Bilingual Diplomas (24% of diploma recipients). If the requirements for an IB Diploma are not met, students may be awarded IB Certificates for individual subjects. All graduating students are also awarded a UWCSEA Diploma. Teachers predict students’ final IB grades in Term 1 of Grade 12. Students’ predicted grades are sent to the universities to which students have applied, along with their transcripts and supporting documents.

Awards/Honours The College ethos is to celebrate the successes of all its students in a variety of ways. Outstanding achievements are recognized in academics through Grade Award Ceremonies; the arts through high quality performances and acknowledgement awards; sports through the awarding of colours; and service through Service Recognition Awards.

UWCSEA does not compute GPA or rank its students.

Complete IB course listing 2011–2012Courses are offered at either Higher or Standard level unless otherwise noted.

1. Language A1:Taught: Chinese; Dutch; English; French;

German; Hindi (SL); Indonesian; Japanese; Korean; Spanish

School Supported Self-Taught (SL):

Burmese; Czech; Hungarian; Italian; Khmer; Malay; Norwegian; Filipino; Polish; Sinhalese; Swahili; Swedish; Thai; Vietnamese;

2.Language A2, B, or ab initio:

Chinese A2; English A2; English B (HL); French A2; French B; French ab initio; German A2; German B; Japanese A2; Mandarin B; Mandarin ab initio; Spanish B; Spanish ab initio

3. Individuals and Societies:

Business and Management; Environmental Systems and Societies (SL); Economics; Geography; History; Information Technology in a Global Society; Philosophy; Psychology; Science, Technology and Society (SL)

4.Experimental Sciences:

Biology; Chemistry; Design Technology; Environmental Systems and Society (SL); Physics; Science, Technology and Society (SL), Sports, Exercise and Health Science (SL).

5. Mathematics and Computer Sciences:

Mathematics (HL); Mathematics (SL); Mathematical Studies (SL); Further Mathematics (SL); Computer Science

6.The Arts Music; Theatre Arts; Visual Arts; Film (SL)

UWCSEA ethos in actionThe school has a strong culture of student involvement. Many students far exceed the Creativity, Action and Service requirement of the IB Diploma, embracing additional opportunities for enrichment, leadership, activism or service. They are key players in the special energy found on our campus.

Global Concerns: A special feature of an education at UWCSEA, this programme emphasises the responsibilities of global citizenship by promoting sustainability through self-help in a number of developing countries. Currently there are over 60 Global Concerns projects, led by students who identify grassroots NGOs to support. In addition to collectively raising over S$500,000 a year to distribute to environmental, human rights and development projects in education and health, younger students may gain first hand experience of the projects through school expeditions, while senior and gap year students get directly involved in service.

The natural disaster relief response programme has distributed over S$1.5 million to affected countries in our region; this includes supporting the education of 230 orphans in Aceh, and building schools in Aceh, Burma, Cambodia, Ladakh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Students and teachers have been directly involved in service in these regions.

Project Week: All Grade 11 students independently plan and organize 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 expeditions: for example, students have built houses for Tabitha in Cambodia, worked with street kids and AIDS victims in Bangkok, volunteered at orphanages throughout Southeast Asia, or trekked in Mongolia or Chiang Mai.

Student-led initiatives include Youth Leadership seminars and Peace conferences. Our Initiative for Peace programme conducts regular workshops and an annual conference in Timor Leste that brings together youth from opposing sides of a conflict and builds human capacity in that country.

Gap Year service projects: 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

IB results 2007–2011Year No. of IB

Diploma candidates

No. of IB Certificate candidates

Percent passed (Diploma)

Worldwide average

UWCSEA average Diploma

score

World-wide average Diploma

score2011 300 8 100 77.92** 36.8 TBA2010 295 6 98.98 78.06 36 29.552009 286 7 97.6 78.7 35.7 29.512008 308 8 98.05 79.02 34.2 29.572007 286 8 97.2 78.8 34 29.56

** provisional

projects, or with NGOs focused on affirmative action and human rights.

Local Service: Students are involved in programmes within the local community. Service commitments can range from supporting disadvantaged children with their studies, to massaging patients in an HIV care centre, supporting terminally ill patients at a hospice, or working with teenagers from a psychiatric hospital.

Arts programme: Students perform in a wide range of plays, dance productions, and concerts throughout the year. Each year there are several large-scale visual arts exhibitions showcasing a range of traditional and experimental work in a variety of media. There are also opportunities for journalism through a variety of school publications.

Sports: School wide, sports teams compete in local, regional and international tournaments. There are also many opportunities for recreational sports.

Debate: Students participate in international tournaments and attend Model United Nations (MUN) conferences and Harvard Model Congress (HMC).

Round Square membership (60+ schools inspired by Kurt Hahn’s ideals): A regional member, UWCSEA regularly sends participants to Round Square conferences around the world, and hosts conferences.

Highlights of IB 2011 results•33.1% of candidates achieved 40+ points (in 2010,

5.28% achieved 40+ points worldwide out of 111,770 candidates)

•An incredible 40% scored 39+ points

•8 candidates achieved the highest possible score of 45 points: a further 13 scored 44 points

•100% pass rate compared to 78.21% provisional pass rate worldwide in 2010

•UWCSEA average IB Diploma pass 37* (in 2009, worldwide average 29.55)

•Average grade achieved by UWCSEA students was 5.8 (in 2010, the worldwide average was 4.65)

•Bilingual Diplomas were awarded to 80 candidates

* Official IB result

Decile distribution of final IB scoresUWCSEA (2011) compared to worldwide (2010)

IB Points UWCSEA 2011 Cumulative Decile

IB Points World 2010 Decile

45+ 8 2.8 1 45+ 0.2 144+ 13 7.1 1 44+ 0.6 143+ 16 12.5 2 43+ 1.24 142+ 15 17.5 2 42+ 2.16 141+ 17 23.1 2 41+ 3.24 140+ 31 33.1 3 40+ 5.28 139+ 21 40.1 4 39+ 7.51 138+ 21 47.1 4 38+ 10.17 137+ 21 54.1 5 37+ 13.41 236+ 24 62.1 6 36+ 17.34 235+ 17 67.8 6 35+ 21.57 234+ 27 76.8 7 34+ 26.47 333+ 13 81.1 8 33+ 31.95 332+ 15 86.1 8 32+ 37.68 431+ 13 90.5 9 31+ 43.88 430+ 13 94.8 9 30+ 50.19 529+ 6 96.8 9 29+ 56.5 528+ 4 98.1 9 28+ 62.7 627+ 5 99.8 9 27+ 67.79 626+ 1 100.0 10 26+ 72.17 725+ 0 100.0 10 25+ 75.72 724+ 0 100.0 10 24+ 78.16 70–23 0 100.0 10 0–23 100 8–10Average: 36.8933 Average: 29.55

SAT scores: summary data for Class of 2011SAT I Scores Middle 50% Mean Students testedCritical Reading 570–700 628 176Mathematics 630–760 689 176Writing 590–690 638 176SAT II Scores Middle 50% Mean Students testedBiology - Ecology 600–750 662 14Biology - Molecular 640–730 671 29Chemistry 690–790 728 41Chinese with Listening 650–760 703 18English Literature 610–720 650 31French 490–680 614 7French with Listening 510–510 510 1German with Listening 700–700 700 1Math Level I 590–680 639 29Math Level II 710–800 738 86Physics 690–770 730 51Spanish 550–550 550 1Spanish with Listening 510–800 723 4US History 660–660 660 1World History 590–690 653 8

AustraliaUniversity of AdelaideAustralian National UniversityBond University, AustraliaCharles Sturt UniveristyGriffith UniversityUniversity of MelbourneMonash UniversityUniversity of New South WalesQueensland University of

TechnologyUniversity of SydneyCanadaUniversity of British ColumbiaMcGill UniversityMcMaster UniversityMount Allison University Quest University CanadaRyerson UniversityUniversity of TorontoTrinity Western University University of VictoriaYork UniversityCosta RicaUniversidad de Ciencias MedicasFranceParsons School of Design, ParisGermanyJacobs University BremenWHU – Otto Beisheim School of

ManagementHong KongUniversity of Hong KongIndiaJai Hind CollegeManipal University Italy Libera Universita Internazionale degli

Studi Sociali Guido Carli di RomaJapanInternational Christian UniversityKeio UniversityUniversity of TsukubaWaseda UniversityKoreaEwha Woman’s University Korea UniversityKorean Advanced Institute of

Science and TechnologySeoul National UniversityYonsei UniversityMexicoUniversidad Nacional Autonoma

de Mexico

NetherlandsAmsterdam University CollegeLeiden UniversityUniversiteit MaastrichtWageningen UniversityQatarGeorgetown University School of

Foreign ServiceSingaporeDigipen Institute of TechnologyJames Cook University (Singapore)LaSalle College of the ArtsNational University of SingaporeSingapore Management UniversitySwedenLund UniversitySpainIE UniversitySwitzerlandEcole Hôtelière de LausanneGlion Inst of Higher EducationUniversitat St. GallenTaiwanNational Chengchi UniversityThailandChulalongkorn UniversityUnited Arab EmiratesNew York University Abu DhabiUnited KingdomUniversity of AberdeenUniversity of the Arts, London The Arts Institute at BournemouthUniversity of BathUniversity of BirminghamUniversity of BoltonUniversity of BrightonUniversity of Bristol Brunel UniversityUniversity of CambridgeCardiff UniversityCentral St Martins College of Art

and DesignCity University LondonDurham UniversityUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of ExeterUniversity of GlasgowGoldsmiths College, University

of LondonUniversity of HertfordshireHull York Medical SchoolImperial College of Science,

Technology and MedicineKeele UniversityUniversity of Kent at CanterburyKing’s College London

Kingston UniversityLancaster UniversityUniversity of LeedsUniversity of LeicesterThe Liverpool Institute for

Performing ArtsLondon School of EconomicsUniversity College LondonLoughborough UniversityUniversity of Manchester Newcastle UniversityNottingham Trent UniversityUniversity of NottinghamOxford UniversityUniversity of Portsmouth Queen Mary, University of LondonRavensbourne College of Design

and CommunicationUniversity of ReadingRoyal Holloway, University

of LondonSchool of Oriental and African

StudiesUniversity of SheffieldUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of St AndrewsUniversity of SurreyUniversity of WarwickUniversity of the West of EnglandUniversity of YorkUnited StatesAmherst CollegeBabson CollegeBard CollegeBarnard CollegeBentley CollegeBerklee College of MusicBoston UniversityBowdoin CollegeBrandeis University Brown UniversityBryant UniversityBucknell UniversityUniversity of California (Berkeley,

Los Angeles, Santa Barbara)Carleton CollegeCarnegie Mellon UniversityCase Western Reserve UniversityUniversity of ChicagoClaremont McKenna CollegeClark UniversityColby CollegeColorado CollegeColumbia UniversityUniversity of Connecticut Cornell UniversityDartmouth CollegeDickinson College

University enrolment of UWCSEA graduates 2009–2011

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Duke UniversityEarlham CollegeEmory UniversityFranklin and Marshall CollegeGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Washington UniversityGeorgetown UniversityGeorgia Institute of TechnologyGrinnell CollegeHamilton CollegeHarvard UniversityHarvey Mudd CollegeUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-

ChampaignIndiana University at BloomingtonLafayette CollegeLewis & Clark CollegeLuther CollegeMacalester CollegeUniversity of Massachusetts, BostonMethodist University University of MichiganMiddlebury CollegeUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesNew York UniversityUniversity of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill

Northeastern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityOberlin CollegeOccidental CollegeUniversity of OklahomaParsons The New School of DesignPennsylvania State UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaPomona CollegePratt InstitutePrinceton UniversityPurdue UniversityReed CollegeRhode Island School of DesignRice UniversityUniversity of RichmondRingling College of Art and DesignUniversity of RochesterRutgers, State University of New

JerseySan Francisco Art InstituteUniversity of San FranciscoSan Francisco State UniversitySanta Clara UniversitySarah Lawrence CollegeSavannah College of Art and Design

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of the Museum of Fine ArtsSchool of Visual ArtsScripps CollegeSkidmore CollegeUniversity of Southern CaliforniaSt. Mary’s College of MarylandSt. Olaf College Stanford UniversitySwarthmore CollegeSyracuse UniversityThe University of TampaThe University of Texas, AustinTisch School of the ArtsTrinity CollegeTufts UniversityVassar CollegeUniversity of VirginiaWashington University in St. LouisUniversity of WashingtonWellesley CollegeWheaton College MAWhitman CollegeWilliams CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonYale University