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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.

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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Student Union Commitment To Campaign On University Arms Trade Investment

25th November 2010
Categories: Investment, Student Unions

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.

Sheffield Students Union Pass Motion Calling for Divestment

4th April 2007
Categories: Investment, Student Unions

The Students Union at Sheffield University has passed a motion calling on their university to divest from the arms trade. The motion was passed by a solid majority.

More explicitly, the Union has declared that it is opposed to the university dealing with the arms trade in any form. This includes through shareholding, research funding … More »

Bristol students secure ethical investment motion

4th February 2006
Categories: Investment, Student Unions

Students from Bristol University Amnesty International and People & Planet societies have proposed and defended a motion at their Students’ Union AGM in favour of ethical investment. The Union’s Vice-President will now lobby the University to commission an independent ethical audit of current investments, divest from arms companies and to adopt an ethical investment policy … More »

Lancaster University Student Union ethical investment motion passed

6th January 2006
Categories: Investment, Research, Student Unions

Alongside the high profile campaign surrounding the George Fox 6, Lancaster students have been highlighting possible links between Lancaster University’s actions with regards to students protesting at a ‘Corporate Venturing’ conference, the commercialisation of research and the holding of shares in companies including BAE Systems – who attended the conference.

Lancaster University SU has this … More »

York University Student Union votes against arms shares

4th January 2006
Categories: Investment, Student Unions

On the 6th December an overwhelming majority passed a motion to mandate York University Students Union to engage in a sustained campaign on ethical investment.

The inadequacy of the University’s current policy is highlighted in the motion – York Uni holds 115000 direct shares in BAE Systems, as revealed by CAAT’s University Clean Investment Campaign.

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