UWC Dilijan College in Armenia hosts 94 new students this year
UWC Dilijan, the first United World Colleges (UWC) international education system college in post-Soviet space, opened its doors for 94 new students this year. They will study here for two years for IB Diploma.
This is already the second enrollment. Some 190 students from 64 countries will attend the college in the 2015-2016 academic year. Of them, 21 are young people from Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
The number of professors increased as well – 17 new professors were employed for this year, the press office of the IDeA (Initiatives for Development of Armenia) Charitable Foundation reports.
John Puddifoot, the head of UWC Dilijan College, greeting the students and professors, said that the founders of the college, UWC movement and IB are unanimous in hoping that investing in high-quality education today they will ensure justice, peace and prosperity in the future.
UWC Dilijan College Co-Founder Veronika Zonabend, on her side, said that education and school is not a building – teachers and children are important here.
She said that the college principal, John Puddifoot, has managed to bring together good teachers, and the UWC unique selection system made it possible to enroll bright, extraordinary and talented children with an active life stance.
Zonabend said they have plenty to do – this will be a complicated, but very interesting work. She said the experience of living in multicultural environment will transform their personality.
Contacts between local young people and the college students have already produced some effect in Dilijan as well, she said.
In 2015, UWC Dilijan College won a number of prestigious international awards - International Property Awards 2015 in 'Public Services Development' nomination (European region) and IGRA Green Roof Leadership Awards-2015 in 'Trendsetting Architecture' category.
The college also became the only educational establishment in the Commonwealth of Independent States to be certified on BREEAM ecological construction standards. --0-----