67 UK universities currently hold significant investments in arms companies is glaring evidence of the growing connection between academia and the arms trade. For example, according to People and Planet, GKN, an arms company that supplied water cannon and armoured vehicles to the brutal Indonesian Suharto dictatorship, paid Cambridge University £750,000 in 2000 for a ten-year 'GKN professorship'. Arms companies are subsidised by public money to the tune of £890m annually - just short of the £950m which will be raised each year by top-up fees, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies. It seems that public money can be found for weapons, but not for education. 'Education for all' Blair recites, but education by whom and for what ends?

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