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THREE more universities have banned fossil fuel firms from recruiting students on campuses in another win for young campaigners.
The University of Bedfordshire, University of the Arts London and Wrexham Glyndwr University (WGU) have become the latest institutions to exclude gas, oil and mining industries from their career services, it was announced yesterday.
They join Birkbeck, University of London, which became the first to adopt the ban in September this year.
The moves follow a campaign supported by the student-led group People & Planet, now active in dozens of universities, and backed by student and lecturers’ unions the NUS and UCU.
Commenting on the move, WGU executive director of operations Lynda Powell said: “Through this, we are supporting the development of a sustainable workforce for the future.”
People & Planet campaigner J Clarke said: “It is vital that our universities show with actions, not words, that they are taking the side of climate justice, not of the industries driving us deeper into a climate crisis that is harming those least responsible first and worst.”
