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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 […]

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 […]

Students and local residents protest at the UAV Tactical Systems company based in Leicester. It builds the Watchkeeper and is in part set up by the Israeli company Elbit Systems. Elbit specializes in the manufacturing of electronic defence devices for the Israeli Army.

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.

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 […]