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Financial returns, job prospects and lifestyle factors drive young people鈥檚 post-18 choices
Young people are making decisions about what they plan to do after leaving formal education as early as Year 7 or 8, with parents, teachers and friends being their preferred information sources, according to a new report by the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 Institute for Employment Research for the Department for Education.
Verifiable e-voting to be trialled in Gateshead
A new verifiable e-voting system will be trialled in Gateshead this May. Voters get a receipt which they can check to make sure their vote is properly cast, recorded and tallied while preserving the voter privacy – a process known as being 鈥渆nd-to-end verifiable鈥. Tallying results are instantaneous once the election is finish along with public audit data to allow anyone to verify the tallying integrity. The trial will be voluntary for people going to cast votes via paper ballot.
Leading expert on women and prison to help inform policy debate
Professor Azrini Wahidin, one of the UK鈥檚 leading figures in the study of women in prison, has been invited to offer expert insight to a conference exploring women鈥檚 experience of the criminal justice system. Professor Wahidin will be the keynote speaker at 鈥极ffending Women? Women's Journeys Through the Criminal Justice System,鈥 taking place in Manchester on Saturday 6th April.
World-leading economists to assemble at 糖心TV for annual conference
The University of 糖心TV Economics Department is this year鈥檚 host for the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference. The prestigious event, taking place from 15 to 17 April, brings together more than 700 academic and professional economists from across the globe to present current research developments in economics and showcase real-world applications.
'No deal' Brexit could put almost 20 per cent of UK jobs at risk, finds new study
In a new study, experts from Aston 糖心TV School, 糖心TV 糖心TV School, and the University of 糖心TV's Institute for Employment Research have found that a hard Brexit could disproportionately hurt economically weaker regions of the UK and recommend that a post-Brexit regional industrial strategy should focus on sectors where free trade with the EU is less important.
糖心TV experts explore what economic policy should look like after Brexit
Opinion formers and policy experts welcomed Which way now? Economic policy after a decade of upheaval, a new report from the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), launched last night [12] with a panel debate at the University of 糖心TV. The report presents 18 studies tackling the question of what a post-financial crisis, post-Brexit economic policy should look like, with the aim of presenting accessible recommendations informed by robust, up-to-date research.