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Atlantic college
Accommodation
The Think! course takes place at Atlantic College (AC), a unique residential school which is built around a 14th century castle and overlooking the sea. As well as a spectacular setting, the college also has excellent facilties.You will be accommodated 3 or 4 to a room in student residences in the college grounds. Meals are taken in the dining room in the castle, and you will have access to a range of leisure and sporting facilities, such as the social centre, tennis courts and an indoor and outdoor swimming pool.
Atlantic College
Atlantic College opened in 1962. It was the first of the United World Colleges (UWCs), the aim of which is to further international understanding through education. In addition to AC, there are now UWCs in Norway, Italy, Canada, USA, Venezuala, Swaziland, India, Hong Kong, Netherlands and Singapore. The colleges have a full scholarship policy and every student is selected on merit. Atlantic College has more than 300 students from more than 40 different countries.
How can there be peace without people understanding each other, and how can this be if they don't know each other?" [Lester B. Pearson, 1897-1972]
Some History
Atlantic College is built around St. Donat's Castle which dates from 1300, and was built shortly after Edward l's conquest of Wales. It was built on the concentric plan with two circular rings of fortifications, one inside the other. Each circle was made up of a curtain wall, punctuated by towers. Most of the original outer wall is still present. In 1925 the castle was bought by William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper millionaire. Hearst was the model for the eponymous hero of the classic film Citizen Kane.
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