United World College of the Pacific/Lester B Pearson is a IB Diploma Programme / IB Career-related Programme / IB school in Victoria, Canada. Founded in 1974.
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Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (also referred to as Pearson College UWC) is one of eighteen schools and colleges around the world in the United World Colleges movement, United World Colleges|website=uwc.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722090437/https://www.uwc.org/education/schools-colleges|archive-date=2016-07-22|url-status=dead}} located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is named after the late Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson, winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, and an early champion of the college. The mission of the UWC movement and of the school is to "make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future".
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