The World university Service (WUS) is an
international organisation founded in 1920 in Vienna as an offshoot of the
World Student Christian Federation to meet the needs of students and academics in the aftermath of
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
. 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 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
Student organizations established in 1920
International student organizations
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