Today , 1st of October , is a grand day in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , for it is the 80th anniversary of the foundation of KIM IL SUNG University , the first ever people’s university in Korea where the sons and daughters of workers and peasants studied .
KIM IL SUNG University was founded in 1946 . A patriotic peasant named Kim Won Je met President KIM IL SUNG and donated rice to the state and this donation was used to help set up the university .
Nowadays the university is massive , proving that mighty oaks do indeed grow from small acorns . KIM IL SUNG University has 10,000 students and 22 faculties .
I have visited the university on several occasions such as in 2012, 2015 and 2025 . The university has undergone expansion. It has a state of the art e library as well as a swimming pool and sports hall . In the past I have been guided by staff from the university as Professor Ri in April 2012 and Ms Kil in 2017.
Unlike the UK , in the DPRK university education is free of charge with no tuition fees . Students are even provided with clothes and accommodation free of charge . In the UK even before Tony Blair introduced tuition fees (which can be up to £10,000 per year) , universities were dominated by students from the bourgeois elite with students from working class and low income backgrounds (such as myself ) being a minority. Now in the UK the working class and lower middle class is effectively shut out of universities .In the DPRK there is the people’s educational system , a socialist education system where education is determined by the intellectual ability of students rather than the financial resources of their students .
Glory to KIM IL SUNG University the first people’s university
Dr Dermot Hudson , Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK
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