In an age where change is remolding our world faster than ever before, we at UWCSEA believe it is dangerous to revere the learned at the expense of the learners. Too much is changing too quickly for self-congratulatory insularity, and it is all too easy for even the best qualified adults to inadvertently educate young people for the recent past instead of the students’ future.
Opened in 1971 as Singapore International School by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, UWC South East Asia became a full member of the UWC movement in 1975. For more than 40 years, it has been offering a mission-driven, values-based international education to students from more than 70 nationalities. A K–12 school, with two campuses and nearly 5,390 students, UWCSEA is now recognised as one of the leading international schools in the world