The World University Service (WUS) is an
international organisation
An international organization or international organisation (see spelling differences), also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is a stable set of norms and rules meant to govern the behavior of states an ...
founded in 1920 in Vienna as an offshoot of the
World Student Christian Federation
The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) is a federation of autonomous national Student Christian Movements (SCM) forming the youth and student arm of the global ecumenical movement. The Federation includes Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic, ...
to meet the needs of students and academics in the aftermath of
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
. After World War II, it merged with European Student Relief to become International Student Service
Arbeitsbericht des World Student Relief 1945/46
/ref> and eventually as WUS in the 1950s. In the 1970s it began to focus on campaigning for educational rights for the disadvantaged.
References
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
The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collecti ...
Student organizations established in 1920
International student organizations
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