What UK Universities Need: Funding not Arms Dealers

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University of Sheffield to Build Arms-Dealer Funded Research Centre

    University of Sheffield to Build Arms-Dealer Funded Research Centre

    The University of Sheffield announced on the 6th of June that it had secured funding for a £43-million Research Factory. Their website boasts that “leading manufacturers including Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and Spirit AeroSystems are committed to supporting the project”. The project has also received £10 million from the taxpayer through the Higher Education […]
    10/6/2013
    Portsmouth University to Oversee Courses at the Omani Military Technical College

      Portsmouth University to Oversee Courses at the Omani Military Technical College

      The University of Portsmouth will provide “academic guidance” to courses that will train up to 4,200 engineering students at the new Military Technical College of Oman. In the words of the University, The Military Technological College will provide academic education and training for the Omani armed forces and Ministry of Defence engineering services Oman is […]
      28/5/2013
      Kirkham Grammar School Provides Accomodation for BAE Taster Weeks

        Kirkham Grammar School Provides Accomodation for BAE Taster Weeks

        BAE Systems are holding two “taster weeks” in July for teenagers “thinking of studying Engineering at university”. Accommodation is being provided by Kirkham Grammar School, a school near BAE’s site in Preston which claims to have a “christian ethos”. If you could politely email the headmaster expressing your concerns that would be amazing. His email […]
        29/4/2013