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Revealed: Big Oil given direct influence over university courses

Fossil fuel companies pump more than £147m into unis and get private access and input into handling of journalists

Revealed: Big Oil given direct influence over university courses
openDemocracy
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Fossil fuel companies have ploughed more than £147m into British universities in seven years and been given “horrifying” influence over academic degree courses.

An investigation by openDemocracy today reveals that BP, Shell and Equinor are among the firms routinely invited to private meetings with university officials, with some institutions taking direct advice on how to run engineering and geoscience degrees.