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Mike Allwright, a Biological Sciences PhD student, writes on a student campaign for ethical investment at the University of Southampton; asking their University to seize the opportunity to invest for the health of global society and the environment. In the past few years many university campuses have seen campaigns calling for the ethical investment of […]

Many students choose to do a year in industry placement as part of their degree. Academic departments often publish a list of possible placement options, or students can find their own. What university departments don’t do however, is give students any information about the ethics of the companies the placements are with, or any guidance […]

 

  Tom Sykes explores the ethical problems with Portsmouth University’s ongoing involvement with the international arms trade. In 1969, Professor Noam Chomsky joined a commission to investigate the financing of his university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A prescient and forthright critic of the Vietnam War, Chomsky was shocked to discover that the US Defense Department […]

  The University of Glasgow is under growing pressure to divest after NUS Scotland revealed that Glasgow University has £1.3m invested in a number of arms companies including BAE Systems. A new petition, already signed by 200 people, highlights that: Last year students of Glasgow University successfully managed to convince the university to divest from harmful fossil fuels, and we […]

The University of Edinburgh is under renewed pressure to completely disinvest from the arms industry after over 50 academics signed an open letter calling for the institution to divest from the arms trade and fossil fuels. The University of Edinburgh’s endowment fund is the third largest in the UK valued at £230 million. The calls build on the enormous […]

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The London Student has revealed that, in spite of ethical investment policy claims, London universities have over £7.4 million investing in arms trade company shares. We can stop this. In 2007-9 Disarm UCL ran a successful campaign to pressure the university into dropping it’s shares in Cobham PLC. Student activism is an essential part of […]

Update: The protest was successful! The DPRTE conference has been moved away from the UWE campus. Well done to everyone who was involved for your hard work! Students of the University of the West of England joined forces with Bristol Against the Arms Trade yesterday to protest and disrupt the DPRTE conference, hosted by the […]