Category: Postcards
Higher education postcard: big science
When I was maybe 10 or 11 I remember going on a trip to Jodrell Bank. It was huge, and […]
February 20, 2026
Higher education postcard: UCL, the early years
Two hundred years and two days ago (at least if this is published on 13 February 2026, as I expect, […]
February 13, 2026
Higher education postcard: critical faculties
Last week’s postcard of a vice chancellor’s robes gave us a chance to look at leadership job titles in higher […]
February 6, 2026
Higher education postcard: vice chancellors and all that
Higher education is not like other sectors. One way in which this is apparent is the different terminology used for […]
January 30, 2026
Higher education postcard: University of Sunderland
Greetings from Sunderland! By the 1850s Sunderland’s main industries were shipping, coal and glass. And in common with other industrial […]
January 23, 2026
Higher education postcard: Teesside University
In August 1856, Joseph Constantine was born in Schleswig-Holstein (then Denmark, later Germany, famously questionable) to British parents: his father, […]
January 16, 2026
Higher education postcard: University College Stockton
A significant book in political science is Pressman and Wildavsky’s wonderfully titled Implementation: how great expectations in Washington are dashed […]
January 9, 2026
Higher education postcard: Trinity College, Oxford
Well, it’s nearly the end of the year, and this is the final higher education postcard of 2025. And as […]
December 19, 2025
Higher education postcard: Normal College, Bangor revisited
Greetings from Bangor! We’ve visited Normal College before, but I frankly couldn’t resist sharing this postcard, with a very lovely […]
December 12, 2025