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Anti arms-trade students protested today at Lancaster campus against the presence of arms companies at the University Career Opportunities Fair. BAE Systems was specifically targeted by groups of students, who handed out fliers and used fake blood to protest their attendance at the Fair.

Essex Careers Centre has cancelled BAE’s attendance of its Careers Fair following student protest. After finding out that BAE Systems were planning to attend the 29 October fair, students quickly mobilised to stop them. They wrote a statement expressing their opposition to BAE’s attendance and sent it to every department at the university. They contacted […]

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Activists challenged the presence of arms company Raytheon UK at the London Graduate Fair this week. The protesters gathered to call on the organisers of the fair to stop promoting arms companies at their events. They also distributed leaflets to those waiting to enter, to inform them about the devastating work of Raytheon UK.

Students at Warwick held a dramatic die-in at their Careers Fair. Below is an account of the action by Jac Bastian, coordinator of Weapons out of Warwick. On the 11th of October the University of Warwick hosted a Careers Fair with BAE Systems and Rolls Royce Plc in attendance as well as Barclays and HSBC. […]

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 […]

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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.