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Open University Fans Say NO 2 Partnership with Arms Dealers Raytheon, Serco, QinetiQ who with the OU are core members of the Metrix consortium which is to build and run privatised military training in an academy at St Athan Wales and will train not only British service personnel, but those from any regime or private military company that can fork out the ready cash.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Metrix Shambles - Media, Ministry and Top Brass Question furure of OU privatisation partnership





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Did you hear this?

  1. Luther ap Blissett: Open University St Athan Ethics Row There is growing discord at the Open University (OU) over its continued involvement with the unsavoury Metrix Consortium, the group of arms dealers and ...

  2. Ethics letter to OU ... We want a public debate in Wales regarding the democratic deficit within the Open University on the decision to enter into the Metrix Consortium.

  3. The Open University in Wales - Vice-Chancellor of The Open University Over a quarter of a century after The Open University in Wales came into being we have much ... As a long-term partner in the successful Metrix consortium, ...


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Blog Archive

  • ▼  2008 (33)
    • ►  December (1)
      • Special NO Ethics Award
    • ►  November (2)
      • Classified targets
      • Will OU become a target?
    • ►  October (1)
      • The St Athan Defence Training Academy: the future ...
    • ▼  September (8)
      • Mark Thomas & St Athan debate film banned
      • Should the OU be involved in the Arms Trade?
      • Rays from the Gods
      • Metrix Shambles - Media, Ministry and Top Brass Qu...
      • Ethics and partnerships, where is the OU ethical p...
      • Anti-metrix campaigners talk to OU staff at Milton...
      • Private Eye on Metrix plans
      • Raytheon training to sell more arms
    • ►  June (1)
      • Raytheon 'war profiteers'?
    • ►  May (3)
      • students ban military - come on OU - BAN MILITARY
      • open university spin
      • Academy link aim for new school plan
    • ►  April (2)
      • OU MA War Profiteering
      • Protest demo at Open University Cardiff Office
    • ►  March (7)
      • Blood on OU hands - Ireland does the right thing
      • UCL ban military and face reprisals!
      • Student horror at partnership with Raytheon
      • NO2 OU & Raytheon. Ethics letter to OU Wales
      • Irish get ethical and dump Raytheon
      • Call for OU to quit St Athan consortium
      • Brenda Gourley - Blood on her hands
    • ►  February (3)
      • OU Protest Cardiff
      • Clean up University Arms Investments! OU shame!
      • Fit to study? The consequences of war
    • ►  January (5)
      • How Raytheon woo kids into the arms industry
      • Army Training Criticised
      • Qinetiq 394 university projects
      • Military recruitment targets children!
      • Open University collusion with Arms Dealers

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