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Jackie Powell

@jacpow.bsky.social
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Retired university projects leader,with fair access and progression a priority. Interested in education and wider policy. Keen reader and gardener, love walking in the Peak District. Opinionated but listen to others. Everything doesn’t have to be serious.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @selwyn1882.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk, which was founded in 1882 in memory of George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and, later, Lichfield If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old colour picture postcard showing three views of Selwyn College, Cambridge
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September sunset after rain, en route to Holmfirth.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @sidneysussex.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk Sidney Sussex sounds like a 1940s film star, but she is in fact Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, who left money to found the college If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old monochrome picture postcard showing the New Court at Sidney Sussex College, a Victorian building with a cloistered walkway at the ground level
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @stcatharines.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk Catz is another example of spelling differences within Oxbridge: Cambridge's is with an A, Oxford's is with an E If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a photograph of the quadrangle at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. The card shows the name of the college, spelt incorrectly
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's a blog I wrote a bout it for @wonkhe.bsky.social back in 2022 buff.ly/Khpy49t
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Higher education postcard: Bridge of Sighs
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag tells a tale of cars and punts
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of St John's College, Cambridge If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old colour picture postcard showing the 'b ridge of sighs' at St John's College Cambridge - an ornate bridge across a river - and the College's arms in red, blue, gold and silver
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The autumn equinox is here in the northern hemisphere, meaning that the new season has officially begun. This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully.
A woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige I detecting autumn leaves on a maple tree
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the clock tower at Trinity College, Cambridge It occupies the former gatehouse of King's Hall, which merged with Michaelhouse in 1546 to form Trinity College If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old colour picture postcard showing a medieval clock tower/gatehouse
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's a blog I wrote about this for @wonkhe.bsky.social a few years ago wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...
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Higher education postcard: Eastern General Hospital, Trinity Cambridge
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to 1914, grim days, and repurposed buildings
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Trinity College Cambridge, when part of it was being used as a hospital in World War 1 If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a hospital ward with nurses and porters, but as yet no beds or patients
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @trincolllibcam.bsky.social I think this must be the Wren Library, now just one of the libraries in the College If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old colour picture postcard showing a lovely baroque side of a college quadrangle, with high windows and a colonnade, very light and airy looking, in lovely warm pinky-yellow stone
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @theul.bsky.social - this time just focusing on the tower I blogged about this for @wonkhe.bsky.social a few years ago buff.ly/nza3Ahp If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
an old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation showing the tower at the University of Cambridge Library, and grand sky-scraper like tower faced in brick and stone, looking like an ancient Egyptian mausoleum
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @theul.bsky.social - Cambridge University Library It'll be all Cambridge for a few weeks now because that's where the alphabet has taken me If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a magnificent 1930s monumental building, in brick and stone, with a central tower and lovely high windows. Printed at the foot of the card is University Library, Cambridge
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Cardiff University, as seen from Cathays Park - its part of the grand Edwardian Imperial quarter in Cardiff, with the museum, city hall, court and war memorials If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard of a grand ornate college building seen from a park with statue, lawns and flower beds
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what became Cardiff University - this was the old old royal infirmary, turned into the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing three story hospital buildings, with a horse and cart outside. Printed at the top of the card is University College, Cardiff, but this is the wrong name
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the former Chelsea Polytechnic, which later became part of both @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @chelseaual.bsky.social If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a large teaching kitchen with students in white coats stood around kitchen tables, with various jars, utensils and ingrdients around them

Printed on the card is Cookery School, Chelsea Polytechnic, SW3
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the City part of @citystgeorges.bsky.social Known for years as the Northampton Institute, after the Marquess of Northampton, who donated the land on which it is built If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a fabulous Victorian college building with a clock, many people milling about on the street outside

Printed at the foot of the card is Northampton Institute
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
From the Royal Family: “Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton truly was a diamond in a rhinestone world. May she rest in peace.
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @dundee.ac.uk The last image of #DundeeWeek - hope you've liked it, and sending best wishes to all at Dundee, which needs all the luck it can get If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial view of the university campus in Dundee, with the silv're River Tay in the background
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @dundee.ac.uk I've got some lovely colourful cards of this troubled university so its going to be a bit of a Dundee week If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing a pretty flower bed, yellows and reds, in front of a motley mixture of university buildings. Printed at the foot of the card is DUNDEE UNIVERSITY
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A little Holly Blue on a rose leaf in my garden.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Shady old lady. #caturday
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This pigeon with 2 chicks is nesting on a first floor windowsill behind a large wall plant at the old building where I volunteer. She is completely oblivious to people who have watched them hatch and grow through the double glazing.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/08/2026
Fortune WHY GROW OLD AND DIE? Li-Chung-Yun lived 256 years. You could too. Learn how. $1.00. House, Rt. 1, Box 350B, Gainesville, GA 30501
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @durham.ac.uk - this is University College, which occupies the castle If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing a medieval castle from inside the courtyard; its in good repaid, and is in fact a college building
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Van Mildert College, @durham.ac.uk Van Mildert came second to Swansea in the postcard World Cup of 2020 or 2021 (can't remember which) If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing 1960s college buildings by a lush-green lake
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This might be of use to some people?
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Kirche in Cassone (Church in Cassone) 1913. Oil on canvas.
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @durham.ac.uk Durham is proper photogenic; this view isn't bad but is it really the best they could have chosen? If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing a view down onto the river Wear, with a rowing boat, trees, houses, a proper bridge with big arches, and some people on a concrete terrace
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Stile -ish. But why? #StileSaturday
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This August children across England will have access to free bus travel. The policy was inspired by a scheme in WECA - we invited Ingrid Skeels, from a Hartcliffe (south Bristol) based charity to talk about the history of the policy and the importance of accessible travel for young people ⤵️
smf.co.uk
Free bus travel for children – a transformative policy for children's mobility and life chances - Social Market Foundation.
Affordable buses are crucial for children's mobility. Ingrid Skeels shares the story behind this summer's national free buses for kids scheme
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation showing a neo-classical gateway in front of a domed tower. Printed at the foot of the card is Edinburgh University from the Quadrangle
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#caturday
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Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
On holiday in Norfolk. This barn swallow had worked all week to get her chicks to fledge. Yesterday evening they did. This morning they were perched on the barn roof in a line where she was feeding them. Magical.
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @universityofessex.bsky.social looking very dramatic at night If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard - taken with a pong exposure - showing concrete campus buildings all lit up in bright white and green; and in the distance the metropolis that is Colchester lit in shades of red
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @exeter.ac.uk Streatham campus as it never was - an image from a 1920s scheme If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawings of a quadrangle of colonnaded college buildings
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @exeter.ac.uk If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing a view of the Streatham Campus, Exeter University, all grass and trees and brick buildings
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My #HigherEducationPostcard blog this week looks at @caiuscollege.bsky.social
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @glasgow.ac.uk And no, I don't know precisely why the Douglas clan arms would be shown here, nor if the tartan is the Douglas tartan If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing a view of the University of Glasgow, set in a park in behind a lake. The image is surrounded by a border of tartan, a sprig of heather and the Douglas clan arms
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 04/07/2026
1959 Bowden Spacelander bicycle
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