Graduate recruitment

Imogen Michel from Edinburgh CAAT reports on their latest action against BAE. Tuesday 29 May 2012, 11am-4pm Edinburgh University Graduate Careers Fair at Adam House, Chambers Street. “It was with great regret that we had to return to the Edinburgh University Careers Fair again this Spring to protest the presence of BAE Systems inside the […]

One of the students involved reports on the day’s action: The good news is we stayed for the whole event and managed to speak to, quite literally, everyone who visited the careers fair. Inspired by Charlie Brooker’s anti-arms trade “GUN SAAAALE” routine, we set up our own miniature arms fair on a nearby bench to […]

Bristol students, including a number of Student Union officers, protested the presence of Barclays at their Autumn Careers Fair last month.

Activists protested the presence of arms companies BAE Systems and Raytheon at the London Graduate Fair this week. Outraged at the presence of BAE Systems and Raytheon at the event, activists aimed to both disrupt the smooth running of the BAE stall and to inform students about the companies.  

At their most recent careers fair, Warwick University students organised a die-in at the BAE Systems stall. While the students lay ‘dead’ on the floor, one student shouted loudly about BAE’s record. Outside the fair the group, Weapons out of Warwick, gave out a ‘Fair Information’ booklet, a guide to the ethical record of those […]

Report on the recent action in Edinburgh: Once again we returned to Edinburgh University to flyer students heading in to the careers fair about the presence of arms companies on campus, as we had already discovered that the arms companies BAE Systems, Thales and Selex would be attempting to recruit students inside the fair. We […]

Abi Haque and Hilary Ekad have written an excellent piece for CAAT in the Huffington Post. Find out about the links between universities and the arms trade and what students are doing about it. Read the article here.

Lancaster University students recently protested a BAE Conference held on their campus. Despite the secrecy surrounding the event, (the students only found out about it by chance), they were able to show BAE that they are not welcome on Lancaster campus. Read all about the action on the Lancaster University student newspaper website.

Students at Manchester University sent arms company BAE packing after a protest at a BAE workshop. Students informed others about BAE before holding a ‘die-in’ outside the event room. Students lay, as if dead, on the ground holding tombstone shaped placards which displayed information about the arms trade. Read Tom Fox’s article in the Manchester […]