Organisation and Implementation of Student Soviets in Universities

[BobBob]

Would like ideas and suggestion in helping to craft a manifesto, of sorts, to change the current university management structure into one which is ran by students and teachers for students and teachers - restoring education as a basic human right, not a profit making enterprise.

Ideas and suggestions can be anything. From the organisation of students to self-sufficient agriculture if things get difficult - because overthrowing a money making government institution in a capitalist developed country is bound to go unnoticed.

And any history of student ran universities would be appreciated.

[willowtooth]

The university of bologna started out as a student run organization. Immigrants would join together by nationalities, and they would hire scholars to teach them different subjects, mostly about the law so could they get around discrimination from the courts. As immigrants were often arrested, killed, fined and generally discriminated against by the state. They were basically student run they hired and fired the teachers, they had representatives from each "nationality" vote for who was hired and fired, and how the school was generally run.

The teachers actually had to form a union against the students. Due to excessive fines that the students levied against teachers for things like not completing the syllabus or even being late to class. They also used the teacher's union to establish some of the words first "degree requirements". It is considered the first university in the world, despite centers of higher learning being established worldwide our modern universities were created out of this model eventually expanding to ancient greece china egypt india etc



The first student power movement in European history had crystallised at the University of Bologna by the early thirteenth century. The idea of guilds of students directing the affairs of a university and keeping the teaching staff in a state of subservience has been alien to European thinking for about 600 years. But one of the two original universities was, shortly after it came into being, a student-dominated society and the prototype for a large family of universities either partially or mainly controlled by students.

http://www.historytoday.com/alan-b-cobban/student-power-middle-ages
http://scholar76.tripod.com/universities2.htm