Arms trade news

Over the three years 2008-2011 leading British universities received at least £83 million of funding from UK arms companies and government military agencies, for research, courses and other activities. The information was analysed from Freedom of Information (FOIs) requests submitted submitted by Dina Rickman of the Huffington Post to the 24 Russell Group universities, which […]

A new study has found that College and Uni endowments’ investments in the US aren’t doing as well as expected in terms of environmental, social and corporate governance, despite a history of leadership in the area (dating from anti-apartheid campaigns in the 1970s). The good news is that where there was good investment, this was generally because […]

Hundreds of academics have written to the European Commission to demand it ban Israeli companies involved in the abuse of Palestinian human rights from EU-funded research groups. This includes Israeli arms companies. Israeli companies currently are able to participate in EU funded research programmes. Read the full story.

The head of BAE Systems UK is worried that not enough young people are taking STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) for all the jobs needing engineering-friendly skills. He also acknowledged that fewer and fewer students want to work in the arms industry because of ethical concerns. STEM subjects are really important but it’s […]

Freedom of Information requests by the Oxford Anti-War Action group helped The Independent to write this article on Oxford University’s investments in Lockheed Martin.

Responses to Freedom of Information requests from a member of Campaign Against Arms Trade’s steering committee have revealed that the York St John University has trained military officers from Libya, Sudan, Uzbekistan and China, with Ministry of Defence (MoD) support, and sometimes even MoD financial backing. Read the article in The Guardian.