Free education

OccupyLSE Demo - 19th March - London School of Economics

What is Free education? What is Freedom and What is Education

The British Coalition government have opened up new Wikipedia:Free school (England)s , the National Unions of Students want Free Education .... but are these the same or opposite things or are they altogether unrelated... or ...

## Some history

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w:Free University of Berlin \- estabkished in 1948 at the start of the Cold War

### Free Univerisites and Free Schools of 1966 - 1968

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Student/teacher lead institutions:

* London Free School/ Antiuniversity of London

* Free University of New York (FUNY)
* w:Free University of New York
* http://antihistory.org/image/19473441418

### Selforganisations / Free Universities 1990s-2000s

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* /University of Openess : http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/
* /Manoa Free University : http://www.manoafreeuniversity.org/
* /Université Tangente: http://utangente.free.fr/ \- who also have a fantastic cartographic department
* /Copenhagen Free University: http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk \- "The Copenhagen Free University opened in May 2001 in our flat. The Free University is an artist run institution dedicated to the production of critical consciousness and poetic language".
* /Universidad Nómada \- http://www.sindominio.net/unomada/
* /Facoltà di Fuga \- http://www.rekombinant.org/fuga/index.php
* The /Independent Art School \- see IndependentArtSchoolLondon also
* /Informal University in Foundation \- http://www.jackie-inhalt.net \- The Informal University in Foundation 'IUIF'is an attempt to establish a network that shares resources and information, in the spirit of social change, as well as an open body that is able to produce new knowledge and research where the fields of form (structures), culture and society meet. The IUIF is currently based in Berlin.
* /Mobilised Investigation \- http://manifestor.org/mi (MI), a research-activism network established in 2002, offers a platform for the exchange and development of research which confronts power
* /Minciu Sodas \- http://www.ms.lt \- is an open laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers. Includes working groups on Global Villages

* http://www.globalvillages.info , participatory society and open economy http://www.cyfranogi.com , leadership development
* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/backtotheroot/, conceptual thinking and self-teaching http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingbytruth/ Hosts a social networking system http://www.modofaccentral.com/mfc/ and works closely with http://www.onevillage.biz to respond to the AIDS challenge in Africa.

## Now

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### Free schools/ Free Universities/

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Experimental situations currently underway - self organisations/ anti-institutions

* Antiuniversity Now
* Karachi Art Anti University

### OERs and MOOCs

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See also Open educational resources (OER) and Wikipedia:Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Examples of OER in use:

* http://wikieducator.org
* http://uopeople.edu/
* http://open.edu

#### OER Links

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* Composing free and open online educational resources
* FLOSS

## Political demand of 'Free education'

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Doors barred as LSE is occupied by the Free University of London

### NUT

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* NUS Roadmap
* http://anticuts.com/2014/07/14/nus-free-education-history/

### OER Links

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* Composing free and open online educational resources
* FLOSS

#### Student Occupations

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Separate page for further expansion on this topic: Student Occupations

### Recent Student Occupations

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* De Nieuwe Universiteit Occupation, Amsterdam 2015

http://newuni.nl/

*     * University of Colour

* OccupationUQAM, Montreal 2015
* #occupationUQAM

* Occupy UAL, London 2015
* Free education/My visit to Occupy UAL

* Occupy LSE - Free University of London

* Occupy KCL

* Free University of Sheffield

* /Free Education MCR

## Current occupations

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* Rhodes Must Fall
* /October6 Student strikes at University of the Witwatersrand
* /SOAS Occupation
* /Sã0 Paulo Occupations

### See Also

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* Topic: Free education
* Topic:Decolonise Knowledge

### External links

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* University of Sheffield's library of material on free education