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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.

Responses to Freedom of Information requests from a member of Campaign Against Arms Trade’s steering committee have revealed that the York St John University has trained military officers from Libya, Sudan, Uzbekistan and China, with Ministry of Defence (MoD) support, and sometimes even MoD financial backing. Read the article in The Guardian.

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 […]

Students campaigning against York University’s undertaking of  research funded by arms companies, yesterday protested on York campus. The lively protest, involving a talk from the local MP, protest poetry and drumming, called for the adoption of an ethical funding policy, to build on the ethical investment policy already held by York. Read the original 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.

Nouse, the University of York’s student newspaper, has revealed that the University of York takes money from arms companies for research. Read the original article.

The Guardian London Graduate Fair, organised jointly with the Careers Group, University of London, is an annual event which provides many students with a valuable opportunity to talk face-to-face with potential employers. However, this year, BAE Systems – the world’s largest arms producer – were allowed to exhibit at the fair and attempt to recruit […]

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.