Lockdown may have brought out the best in many of us - Zoom Christmas, neighbourhood support schemes for the elderly, Captain Tom, clapping for the NHS drinks on the drive, “gin by the bins” and not seeing your family in person for months.
But the other side - the profiteering and dodgy dealing seems to raising its ugly head, like Black Marketeering did in WWII.
Oxford and Warwick universities , it has emerged are renting out lecture halls for corporate events despite holding students’ lectures online.
Multiple conference rooms and lecture halls are being advertised for rent at Oxford despite the university saying it is yet to make a final decision on whether returning students will be taught entirely in person.
The rooms are advertised on the university’s website as available to corporate clients during the academic year, in addition to holidays.
Surely If the university authorities believe their campuses are safe enough for big corporate events, then they should be safe enough for students.. Universities should be open for business – the business of educating students, not just for corporate clients.
If you can’t have students, you can’t have corporate events.
