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The idea behind TEMPUS was that individual universities in the European Community could contribute to the process of rebuilding free and effective university systems in partner countries; and that a bottom-up process through partnerships with individual universities in these countries would provide a counterweight to the influence of the much ...
Free education--at various levels--has been guaranteed by both domestic constitutions and in international human rights treaties.. The cost of education first became a subject of international law following World War I, although only for certain countries and only in limited situations.
These differences may be a factor in determining why European Students have been more successful in obtaining legally recognized student rights, from the right to access free education to the right to move and study freely from one EU country to the next, to the right to exercise their national legal rights in institutions of higher education.
In the end, former University of Chicago President Hanna Holborn Gray got it right when she said, “Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think ...
Freedom of education is a constitutional (legal) concept that has been included in the European Convention on Human Rights, Protocol 1, Article 2, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 13 and several national constitutions, e.g. the Belgian constitution (former article 17, now article 24) and the Dutch ...
The Republican war on universities is the essential history behind the current conflicts on campuses, and my own campus, the University of Texas at Austin, is a case study in this crisis, writes ...
Rüegg, Walter (1992) "Themes" pages 3 to 34 in A History of the University in Europe, Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages edited by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Cambridge University Press. Rüegg, Walter (1996) "Themes" pages 3 to 42 in A History of the University in Europe, Vol. II: Universities in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Hilde de Ridder ...
The Free University of Berlin [a] (German: Freie Universität Berlin, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany.It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period as a Western continuation of the Friedrich Wilhelm University, or the University of Berlin, [3] [4] whose traditions and faculty members ...