World University Service Explained

The World university Service (WUS) is an international organisation founded in 1920 in Vienna^[1] as an offshoot of the World Student Christian Federation to meet the needs of students and academics in the aftermath of World War I. After World War II, it merged with European Student Relief to become International Student Service^[2] and eventually WUS in the 1950s. In the 1970s it began to focus on campaigning for educational rights for the disadvantaged.^[3]

Further reading

• Thompson, Mary, A. (1982) Unofficial Ambassadors: The Story of International Student Service. International Student Service.

See also

• David Atherton-Smith

External links

• WUS country list
• Catalogue of the WUS archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Notes and References

1. Web site: Council of Europe at the World University Service Conference on the human right to quality education . 2022-05-10 . Higher education and research . en-GB.
2. http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/doview/nla.gen-vn4667231-p Arbeitsbericht des World Student Relief 1945/46
3. Book: Osmańczyk, Edmund Jan . Anthony Mango (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the United Nations and international agreements volume 4: T to Z and index. 3rd. 2003. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-415-93924-9. 2763.