Danny Dorling: University of Oxford acts ‘as if city doesn’t matter’

Professor Dorling raises some salient points, in most Universities the effects of suppressed wages for the lowest directly employed grades is compounded by outsourcing to the cheapest contractor when ever possible with even lower wages. Then there are the student 'dormitory' areas where local housing is purchased by absentee landlords, often including the Universities themselves. Excluding those homes from local ownership/rental and occupation, being rented often with huge deposits and penalty clauses to staff and students, causing further resentment even without the all too common bad behaviour rightly or wrongly associated with student occupied HMO's.

Each university tries to earn money. It is a lot of money. Nobody wants to waste money. It is impossible to claim that separate positions at the universities are not so popular and even are a certain derelict. The university is first of all corporation. In any corporation there is a system where all its elements are interconnected. Therefore such universities as Oxford, and any other universities have to give good support to all the employees.