Graduate recruitment

It’s been bad term for arms dealers trying to recruit on campus. Here’s a round up of some of the actions that took place: Where: Lancaster University What: Die-in at BAE stall “BAE has a horrific human rights record, having sold arms to Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Algeria and Qatar. The company produces […]

The scary season is upon us. Dark nights and pumpkins can only mean one thing… arms dealers! (well maybe not the pumpkins). That’s right folks, arms companies will soon be handing out sweets to unsuspecting students at a careers fair near you. But are these treats really a trick? Yes. Behind the free give away is […]

The motion to oppose and Ban BAE Systems as an Arms Company with Poor Human Rights Records from University of Bristol Students’ Union Events, and the University in general has been passed by the University of Bristol Students Union. The proposal set out that: 1. BAE Systems is clearly unethical and has no place on campus, […]

Get in quick, universities have started advertising to employers for their Spring/Summer (some have even gone as far as Winter) careers fairs. We’ve included phone numbers and e-mail contacts on the map so that you can easily ask your careers service who’s coming and implore them not to accept any offers from arms companies. If […]

Update: The protest was successful! The DPRTE conference has been moved away from the UWE campus. Well done to everyone who was involved for your hard work! Students of the University of the West of England joined forces with Bristol Against the Arms Trade yesterday to protest and disrupt the DPRTE conference, hosted by the […]

Students from the Fund Education Not War group at Sheffield University were dragged from the Octagon Centre where they were protesting the companies Augusta Westland, Airbus, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Thales and Ultra Electronics who were exhibiting at the university’s engineering careers fair. Some of the students were injured as a result. One activist shows […]

Students at Bristol university disrupted their Careers Fair to protest the attendance of BAE Systems, Thales and EADS. Here’s their press release: On the 22nd and 23rd of October a group of Bristol students took action against the presence of arms companies at careers fairs organised by Bristol university. This action took place at the […]

BAE Systems, one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, have been attending Edinburgh’s Careers Fairs for several years and have been met with student protests each time. This time last year, students held a stall outside the Careers Fair and even managed to confiscate some of BAE’s materials. At the end of the Fair, one of the […]

At last year’s Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair in Leeds, Thales, the world’s 11th largest arms company attended. A few months ago, they were listed on the Fair’s website as attending again but after a huge campaign by Let’s Disarm Leeds and a successful student union referendum against arms company’s presence on campus, they have quietly disappeared […]