University investments

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.

The Newcastle University newspaper, The Courier, has revealed university shares in arms company, BAE. Shockingly, shares in the company have almost doubled since 2009, when the university agreed to review its ethical investment policy. Read more here.

The Swansea Student Union has passed a motion to campaign against their University having shares in the arms trade, specifically targeting current shares in Cobham and BAE Systems. Find out more and read the text of the motion here.

A year on from the occupations and student activism against the arms trade has not abated. With a day of action followed by a gathering in York students are making themselves heard. On 24 February students across the UK took action against their university’s links with the arms trade. Actions included a vigil in memory […]

Student campaigners across Britain joined ranks on Wednesday to call on their Directors of Finance to sell arms company shares and adopt ethical investment policies. At around midday, protesters at University College London (UCL) donned suits and plastic guns and posed as arms dealers. This drew the attention of both students and staff to the […]

Campaigners at University College London (UCL) are gearing up for a week of protest against the investments held by their university. They are hoping this will be the final stage of the campaign for divestment, broadly supported by students, staff and alumni. The Disarm UCL campaign was launched early this year. It quickly gained the […]

A sustained, four-year campaign by students at St Andrew University has led to the University Court adopting the Ethical Investment Policy drawn up jointly by the activists and university Finance Director. The policy means that social and environmental issues will be considered alongside financial ones, meaning that investment in companies such as BAE Systems will […]

The Students Union at Sheffield University has passed a motion calling on their university to divest from the arms trade. The motion was passed by a solid majority. More explicitly, the Union has declared that it is opposed to the university dealing with the arms trade in any form. This includes through shareholding, research funding […]

Members of Manchester Students Union have been told by University officials that they will look into the University’s arms investments. Read more here.