Community

The UNIS Community is composed of students, parents, teachers, school staff and friends who come from different countries and regions as well as from different backgrounds. Each member brings a unique perspective to our community, which in combination constitutes the UNIS spirit. While providing a sound academic environment, UNIS helps to form a supportive community that encourages our students to become responsible stewards of our global society and natural environment. The promotion of diversity and understanding of cultural and religious differences are vital to our community’s way of life.

UNIS recognises the need for effective communications and to find out all that is happening in the community we have Tin Tuc (the weekly school newsletter), the school website, the Community Information Exchange Board on the campus. The monthly SCO meetings and the Board of Directors’ meetings are channels that members can employ to stay informed with important developments of the school that can have an effect on every member of our extended community. UNIS has always believed that each member of the community is a stakeholder in our school.

Education is the core focus of any school. UNIS seeks to provide a challenging and supportive education environment to all of our students. As we also value the concept of being a life-long learner, we also offer continuing education to the adults in our community as well as the wider community in Hanoi. The Community Education Programme (ComEd in short) coordinated by the Community Relations Office offers a wide range of continuing education courses from languages such as Vietnamese, English and Spanish to Yoga, cooking, dancing, silk embroidery and many more. These classes give UNIS visibility in Hanoi as a premier educational facility where all are welcome.

UNIS understands and appreciates the importance of keeping one’s mother tongue language as an effective way of maintaining one’s culture background. Therefore, the school actively supports parent-organised Mother Tongue Programs by providing classroom space and web links. Many such programs have flourished at UNIS. Students from UNIS as well as other international schools in Hanoi are now able to take their regular Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, Japanese and mother tongue classes at UNIS after school hours. Click on the highlighted words for related pages.