Free education, the Glossary
Free education is education funded through government spending or charitable organizations rather than tuition funding.[1]
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Alison (company)
ALISON is an Irish online education platform for higher education that provides certificate courses and accredited diploma courses.
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Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Christian Leaders Institute
Christian Leaders Institute (CLI), founded in 2006, offers free online correspondence religious classes.
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
A community college is a type of undergraduate higher education institution, generally leading to an associate degree, certificate, or diploma.
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Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance.
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Compulsory education
Compulsory education refers to a period of education that is required of all people and is imposed by the government. Free education and Compulsory education are education issues.
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Constitution of Bangladesh
The Constitution of Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশের সংবিধান –), officially the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের সংবিধান –) is the supreme law of Bangladesh.
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Coursera
Coursera Inc. is an American global massive open online course provider.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
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The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web and rise of text messaging.
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Distance education
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
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Education in Argentina
Education in state institutions is at the initial, primary, secondary and tertiary levels and in the undergraduate university level (not for graduate programs).
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Education in Brazil
Education in Brazil has had many changes.
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Education in Cuba
Education in Cuba has been a highly ranked system for many years.
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Education in Greece
Education in Greece is centralized and governed by the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, and Sports (Greek: Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Θρησκευμάτων και Αθλητισμού, Υ.ΠΑΙ.Θ.Α.) at all grade levels in elementary, middle school, and high school.
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Education in Hungary
The educational system in Hungary is predominantly public, run by the Ministry of Human Resources.
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Education in Lebanon
Education in Lebanon is regulated by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE).
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Education in Saudi Arabia
Public education in Saudi Arabia—from primary education through college—is open to every Saudi citizen.
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Education in the Czech Republic
Education in the Czech Republic includes elementary school, secondary school, and post-secondary school.
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Education in Turkey
Education in Turkey is governed by a national system which was established in accordance with the Atatürk's Reforms.
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Education in Uruguay
Education in Uruguay is compulsory for a total of fourteen years (two years of pre-primary, six years of primary education, and six years of middle education), beginning at the preschool level, and is free from the pre-primary through the university level.
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Education Index
An Education index is a component of the Human Development Index published every year by the United Nations Development Programme.
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EdX
edX is a US for-profit online education platform owned by 2U since 2021.
Equal opportunity
Equal opportunity is a state of fairness in which individuals are treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences, except when particular distinctions can be explicitly justified.
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Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
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European Economic Area
The European Economic Area (EEA) was established via the Agreement on the European Economic Area, an international agreement which enables the extension of the European Union's single market to member states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
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The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Free content
Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or any other creative content unrestricted by copyright and other legal limitations on use. Free education and free content are free goods and services.
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Free university
A free university is an organization offering uncredited, public classes without restrictions to who can teach or learn.
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FutureLearn
FutureLearn is a British digital education platform founded in December 2012.
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G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Gift economy
A gift economy or gift culture is a system of exchange where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.
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Global Text
The Global Text Project (GTP) is a not for profit organization dedicated to the creation, translation, and distribution of free open content textbooks over the Internet.
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Gratis versus libre
The adjective free in English is commonly used in one of two meanings: "at no monetary cost" (gratis) or "with little or no restriction" (libre).
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Homeschooling
Homeschooling or home schooling, also known as home education or elective home education (EHE), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) on 16 December 1966 through GA.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Islamic Azad University
The Islamic Azad University (IAU; دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی, Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi) is a private university system headquartered in Tehran, Iran.
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Islamic Golden Age
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.
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José Pedro Varela
José Pedro Varela Berro (19 March 1845 - 24 October 1879) was an Uruguayan sociologist, journalist, politician, and educator.
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan.
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Lorenzo Latorre
Lorenzo Latorre, full name Lorenzo Antonio Inocencio Latorre Jampen, (8 July 1844 – 18 January 1916) was a Uruguayan officer and politician, who was a dictator and President of Uruguay from 10 March 1876 until 15 March 1880.
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Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
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Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
Massive open online course
A massive open online course (MOOC) or an open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web.
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Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
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Merit system
The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections.
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Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray (born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview.
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Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022.
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MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
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MITx
MITx is the massive open online course (MOOC) program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) or Student Left Network is a membership-based organisation of activist students and education workers campaigning against tuition fees, education cuts and privatisation in the United Kingdom.
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National Rally
The National Rally (Rassemblement National,, RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (Front National,, FN), is a French far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and nationalist.
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National school (Sri Lanka)
A National school (ජාතික පාසල, Jathika Pasala, தேசியப் பாடசாலை) in Sri Lanka is a school that is funded and administered by the Ministry of Education of the central government as opposed to Provincial schools run by the local provincial council.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.
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Normandy
Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
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Northern Europe
The northern region of Europe has several definitions.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.
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Open education
Open education is an educational movement founded on openness, with connections to other educational movements such as critical pedagogy, and with an educational stance which favours widening participation and inclusiveness in society.
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Open educational resources
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify.
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Open-source curriculum
An open-source curriculum (OSC) is an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified.
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OpenCourseWare
OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet.
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Parochial school
A parochial school is a private primary or secondary school affiliated with a religious organization, and whose curriculum includes general religious education in addition to secular subjects, such as science, mathematics and language arts.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Pirivena
A pirivena (plural: piriven) is a monastic college for the education of monks in Sri Lanka.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree.
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Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
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Private school
A private school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a public school.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Right to education
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Scholarship
A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Secondary education
Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
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Student financial aid in the United States
Student financial aid in the United States is funding that is available exclusively to students attending a post-secondary educational institution in the United States.
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Student loans in the United States
In the United States, student loans are a form of financial aid intended to help students access higher education.
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Sukavich Rangsitpol
Sukavich Rangsitpol (สุขวิช รังสิตพล; born 5 December 1935) is a Thai business executive and politician.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris (October 4, 1804 – February 25, 1878) was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Truancy
Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education.
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Tuition freeze
Tuition freeze is a government policy restricting the ability of administrators of post-secondary educational facilities (i.e. colleges and universities) to increase tuition fees for students.
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Tuition payments
Tuition payments, usually known as tuition in American English and as tuition fees in Commonwealth English, are fees charged by education institutions for instruction or other services.
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Udacity
Udacity, Inc. is an American for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Universal access to education
Universal access to education is the ability of all people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnic background or physical and mental disabilities.
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Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act
The Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, officially designated as Republic Act 10931, is a Philippine law that institutionalizes free tuition and exemption from other fees in state universities and colleges (SUCs), and local universities and colleges (LUCs) in the Philippines.
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Université populaire de Caen
The Université populaire de Caen (Popular University or People's University of Caen) is a free university created in October 2002 by Michel Onfray in the north-western French city of Caen.
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University of Oslo
The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo; Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway.
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University of the Republic (Uruguay)
The University of the Republic (Universidad de la República, sometimes UdelaR) is a public research university in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
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Waqf
A (وَقْف;, plural), also called a (plural حُبوس or أَحْباس), or mortmain property, is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law.
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation.
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Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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2002 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 April 2002, with a runoff election between the top two candidates, incumbent Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front, on 5 May.
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2011–2013 Chilean student protests
The 2011–2013 Chilean protests – known as the Chilean Winter (in particular reference to the massive protests of August 2011) or the Chilean Education Conflict (as labelled in Chilean media) – were a series of student-led protests across Chile, demanding a new framework for education in the country, including more direct state participation in secondary education and an end to the existence of profit in higher education.
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501(c) organization
A 501(c) organization is a nonprofit organization in the federal law of the United States according to Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)) and is one of over 29 types of nonprofit organizations exempt from some federal income taxes.
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See also
Free goods and services
- Angel Comedy
- Community Banana Stand
- Free Comic Book Day
- Free clinic
- Free content
- Free education
- Free newspapers
- Free public transport
- Free schools in England
- Free universities
- Free-culture movement
- Freeware
- Freiwirtschaft
- Gemach
- Health Brigade
- Milan Puskar Health Right
- Product sample
- Shareware
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_education
Also known as Cost free education, Free Education System, Free college tuition, Free higher education, Free tuition, Tuition-free college, Universal Free Education System.
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