[SGRupdate] New Research on UK University-Military Links

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

New research from Huffington Post UK and Campaign Against Arms Trade ...

Arms Trade Firms Fund Elite Universities With £83m Over Three Years

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/21/arms-companies-russell-group-universities-83m-ethical-investment-campaign-against-the-arms-trade_n_1818747.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

The point that doesn't come out very clearly in this article - which SGR has
made in its previous reports on this issue - is that the military funding
makes up a large fraction of the funding received by the engineering depts of
the universities in question - and so has far greater influence than implied
by the universities.

Regards

Stuart

Dr Stuart Parkinson
Executive Director.
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