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Dr Sioned Pearce uncovers new findings in favour of the ‘Remain’ campaign. The research, from the ‘Should we stay or should we go: Young People and the EU Referendum‘ project, has revealed young people who want to Remain are more likely to vote than those who want to Leave. 68% of young people who want Britain…

  We know support for continued EU membership is heavily concentrated among younger citizens with 60% under 30 who support REMAIN, compared with only 24% who support LEAVE. Among the Pre/Post-War generation 54% support LEAVE and 35% support STAY. We also know young people are less likely to vote with 70% highly likely to vote compared with 88% among the oldest generations. What we didn’t know is…

Professor Gareth Rees features in a BBC Wales online news item regarding: Election ahead of crucial education decisions, which can be accessed below. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-wales-35969744

BBC Radio Wales’ Good Evening Wales programme featured a further interview with Professor David Blackaby, School of Management on ongoing developments in Tata’s sale of its UK operations, including the steelworks at Port Talbot

Depending on your perspective, the campaigns for a remain/withdrawal vote in the EU referendum have had between six weeks (since David Cameron announced the date of the referendum on 20th February) or more than two years (since David Cameron announced that the plan to hold a referendum would be in the Conservative Party manifesto for the…

Sky News carries an interview with Professor David Blackaby of the School of Management, who described steel as “a strategic industry, a foundation industry”, which is vital if we want a manufacturing industry in this country.

  With a plethora of upcoming elections on 5th May, we are reminded that devolution of power and delineated boundaries in the UK since 1997 means multi-level political trends and outcomes within and between nations and regions: the EU referendum is no exception. We know that in the UK young people are more likely to support…

Dr Gareth Rees was interviewed by BBC Radio Cymru on education and the Assembly election – focusing on school standards/performance & University/student finance