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Jobs in OxfordOxford has a population of around hundred and 143,000 and received city status in 1542. Oxford is home to two universities Oxford Brookes University, founded in 1992, and the world-famous Oxford University, founded in 1248. There have been Britain in Bloom winners five times. The 20th century saw Oxford experience rapid industrial and population growth largely as a result of printing and publishing industries, and the Morris motor company beginning to mass-produce in Cowley on the southern edge of the city. By the early 1970s over 20,000 people worked in Cowley, at the huge Morris motors and pressed steel Fisher plants. The city thus became a city of two halves with university side to the west and the car town to the east. In due to the decline of British Leyland area suffered massive job losses in the 80s and 90s but in is now producing successful new mini the BM interestingly, Roger Bannister ran the first sub four minute mile on six of May 1954, in Oxford. |
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