Vice chancellors across the country certainly think so. Many are furious at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for turning it into aThe university has a major presence in Wolverhampton, Telford, Walsall and Stafford. It is not, and never will be, an Oxford or Cambridge. But it has brought hundreds of thousands of young people into further education, training them for worthwhile careers. A large proportion of those are local, the first generation to go to university. And that alone makes it worthwhile.
But Professor Adia is proud of the role it and other city universities in the UK play in enhancing the lives of many who would otherwise miss out. Writing in today's Star, he says:"Our region is a true engine of social mobility and the statistics here at the University of Wolverhampton clearly demonstrate this.
"The university makes a disproportionate contribution to levelling up the West Midlands – 71 per cent of our students are the first in family to go to university and over three-quarters live within a 20-mile distance of our three campuses in Wolverhampton, Walsall and Telford.