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The CAAT Universities Network exists to provide students and staff in higher education with information on arms companies' ties to universities and to encourage them to actively campaign and participate in breaking these ties.

Durham students run miniature ‘arms fair’ outside careers fair

21st February 2012
Categories: Action reports, Careers Services

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 … More »

Bristol students say that inviting Barclays onto their campus is ‘NOT OK’

25th November 2011
Categories: Action reports, Careers Services, Student Unions

Bristol students, including a number of Student Union officers, protested the presence of Barclays at their Autumn Careers Fair last month.

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Bristol University: Weapons Factory?

20th October 2011
Categories: Careers Services, Counter-recruitment, Research

From a student at Bristol University

This spring, many of us will have seen the Arab uprisings, and been shocked at the way peaceful people have been gassed, shot at, and otherwise attacked by their own governments. What will have passed many of us by however, is that many of the weapons used against these … More »

University of Exeter Writes to their Careers Service

9th October 2010
Categories: Careers Services, Counter-recruitment

Natalie Horlock Employer Liaison Officer Careers and Employment Service University of Exeter Kay Building North Park Road Exeter EX4 4QF

9th October 2010

Dear Natalie Horlock,

We, the undersigned, are extremely concerned that the University will be actively advertising, supporting and working in partnership with three arms companies on Wednesday 27th October at … More »