Press Releases
Mind the Gap - how will skills training be funded after Brexit?
The University of Warwick has published the third in a series of briefings exploring the implications of Brexit for the job market, workers’ rights, and employment policy. Skills training for vulnerable workers: effects of the loss of EU funding after Brexit outlines how current skills training in the UK is supported by EU funding, and recommends key priorities for a post-Brexit UK-funded skills programme. The paper is the third of four Warwick Brexit Briefings on Employment by the University of Warwick and its Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) network.
Warwick experts analyse how inward investment is likely to be affected by Brexit
The University of Warwick has published the second in a series of briefings exploring the implications of Brexit for the job market, workers’ rights, and employment policy. Job Loss and Job Creation – Pitfalls and Opportunities? summarises recent research from the University of Warwick on the likely effects of Brexit on inward foreign direct investment (FDI); on the complex interrelationships between inward FDI and employment restructuring; and makes research-led policy recommendations for a post-Brexit industrial strategy.
Brexit was caused by feelings: older voters not the cause
New research from the University of Warwick finds that many popular theories about Brexit are wrong. Using just-released data, the researchers show that it was people’s feelings about their own finances that led to Brexit, and that Brexit was not forced on the UK by older voters.
University of Warwick experts and UKIP’s Diane James to discuss US election outcome
A panel of experts from the University of Warwick, along with Diane James, Deputy Chairman of UKIP, are to debate and discuss the results of the US election.
Experts to talk at Coventry referendum debate
Pro and anti-Brexit views are to be put forward at a public meeting being held at the University of Warwick.
Brexit would harm the UK's inward investment
Leaving the European Union would see foreign direct investment into the UK drop dramatically, taking four years to recover and remaining at a reduced level in the long-term.
That is the finding of new research from Warwick Business School which looked at the short-term and long-term impact of policy changes and external shocks on foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK from 1963 to 2014.