Hugh Jones

236 pieces

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1. 23 September 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: Nottingham Trent University

   This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a university which might have been named after old Big ‘ead himself

2. 16 September 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: The University of Southampton’s Royal Charter

   This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows the first university to be granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth II

3. 2 September 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: Selwyn College, Cambridge

   This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to the fens and to the antipodes

4. 26 August 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: All Souls College, Oxford

   Today’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows an ancient foundation which is all a bit ducky

5. 19 August 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

   This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Victorian Cambridge’s widening access initiative

6. 12 August 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: University of South Wales

   This week’s card from Hugh Jones postbag takes us to the South Wales Valleys and to an early international student recruitment initiative

7. 5 August 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: Bangor University

   This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a university built on slate and run from a pub

8. 29 July 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: Ruskin College

   This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag tells a tale of trades’ unionism – and eggs

9. 22 July 2022 · Comment

   Higher education postcard: University of Reading

   Today’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows a tower half the height it might have been

10. 15 July 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: Loughborough University

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to the East Midlands and the epicentre of student sport.

11. 8 July 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: College of Librarianship Wales

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows a world-leading institution you may never have heard of

12. 1 July 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: University College, Oxford

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us on a tour of bad loans, medieval court cases and mythology

13. 25 June 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: rag week

    Nowadays university rag is fun charity work. But it wasn’t always that way, finds Hugh Jones.

14. 16 June 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: University of Winchester

    This week’s postcard from Hugh Jones’ postbag blog tells of cholera, whisky and prog rock

15. 10 June 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: University of Dundee

    Today’s card from Hugh Jones postbag tells a story of jute, but not jam or journalism

16. 27 May 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: Swansea

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Copperopolis

17. 19 May 2022 · Comment

    Higher education postcard: University of Lincoln

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows one of Britain’s newest-named universities in one of its oldest cities

18. 13 May 2022 · Comment

    Higher Education Postcard: Queen Elizabeth College

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows that demergers and mergers in higher education are not a new idea

19. 6 May 2022 · Comment

    Higher Education Postcard: City, University of London

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows a scene from the heart of the capital

20. 29 April 2022 · Comment

    Higher Education Postcard – University of East London

    This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag tells a fiery story of the finest technical institute in the Kingdom