Cymdeithas yr Iaith will be taking action on the Eisteddfod field in Cardiff to open up the campaign and debate about a Welsh-medium Federal College to the people. Education Minister, Jane Hutt, has announced that a Working Group - to be chaired by Robin Williams - is being set up to look at different models for establishing a Welsh-medium Federal College which was one of the core commitments of the Coalition Government's One-Wales document.

Cymdeithas Campaign Spokesperson, Rhys Llwyd, commented:"This Working Party is to be chaired by the current head of Higher Education Wales's own group, and is likely to be made up in the main of the same Establishment figures who have been doing everything possible to defend the vested interests of their own institutions, and undermining any real progress towards setting up an independent Welsh-medium Federal College. This is why little progress has been made on theissue during the first year of the Coalition Government. We must now step up a gear if the promise to set up the College is to be realised during the remaining life-span of this government."Mr Llwyd explained:"Our intention is to seize back the initiative from the Establishment and to open up the debate and campaign to the people of Wales as the establishment of such a college could benefit the whole country. We shall therefore be turning our Public Meeting on the Eisteddfod Field in Cardiff at 3pm Wednesday (Aug 6th) into an Open Working Party to which everyone is invited to voice their views as to how the College should be set up. Eisteddfodwyr are also invited to post their ideas at the Cymdeithas unit on the Maes, and all this evidence will be delivered to the Minister so that she does not have to rely solely on the tired old establishment views."* DETAILS OF THE MEETING - 3pm Wed 6th August, Pabell y Cymdeithasau (Societies Tent), Eisteddfod Field..Everyone is invited to an OPEN FORUM "WELSH-MEDIUM FEDERAL COLLEGE - IT AFFECTS US ALL". Come to listen to speakers from Cymdeithas yr Iaith, Welsh Federal Colege Campaign, students and campaigning academics ...and give YOUR VIEWS..don't let the Establishment highjack and water down the campaign!