Royal scholarship fund for Dutch to study at college in Wales
DUTCH students are to receive scholarships to attend UWC Atlantic College in Wales.
To mark his 50th birthday, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands – a former pupil of the school in Llantwit Major – is being honoured with the creation of a scholarship in his name.
The fund will allow financially less-advantaged Dutch students to attend the college where the King studied 30 years ago.
King Willem-Alexander attended UWC Atlantic College in Llantwit Major from 1983-85, where he studied for his International Baccalaureate (IB), which the college helped to create in the late 1960s.
The creation of the Willem-Alexander Scholarship Endowment Fund will ensure that talented students from less-advantaged communities in the Netherlands are able to follow in the royal footsteps, by joining the founding college of the international United World Colleges movement, which is affiliated with schools, educational programmes and organisations in more than 150 countries.
The scholarships have been made possible thanks to the generous support of UWC Atlantic College alumni, parents of Dutch students and other donors from the Netherlands, who have already raised nearly €700,000 to support the college’s work.
Currently, 11 Dutch students attend UWC Atlantic College as part of a 350-strong international cohort which represents more than 90 nationalities.