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Dual victory as university divests from fossil fuel and border industries

Dual victory as university divests from fossil fuel and border industries

Staffordshire becomes first UK higher education institution to remove both sectors from its investment portfolio ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Student campaigners have hailed a significant first after Staffordshire University committed to exclude fossil fuel companies from its investment portfolios as well as those involved with border surveillance, incarceration and forced migrant deportations. Although the student-led

Loughborough Students Risk Disciplinary Action on Fossil Fuel Campaign

Loughborough Students Risk Disciplinary Action on Fossil Fuel Campaign

At the start of the academic year something unusual happened at Loughborough University. Whereas undergraduates normally avoid politics on campus a small group got together to discuss a campaign to encourage the university to take their investments out of fossil fuels. Initially the Loughborough People and Planet campaign had the support of Loughborough Students’ Union