Today is St Frideswide's day, and so #HigherEducationPostcard shows #ChristChurch #Oxford

#Frideswide, or Frithuswith, a Mercian sub-king's daughter, is patron saint of the city and the university, and Christ Church is reputedly built on the site of the monastery founded by her in the seventh or eighth centuries

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Here's my #HigherEducationPostcard blog on @Wonkhe today, about the University of the Highlands and Islands

Contains a bonus second #postcard ...

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/higher-education-postcard-university-of-the-highlands-and-islands/

I'm taking a break for a week from posting daily #HigherEducationPostcard - back soon!

May still post other stuff - depends on how things sit!

Here’s a #postcard showing the #Rajabai Clock Tower of the University of #Mumbai

This was modelled on the Palace of Westminster, London, and designed by George Gilbert Scott. It is part of a #UNESCO World heritage Site and houses the University Library. It was paid for by Premchand Roychand, a Mumbai magnate, and named in honour of his mother

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Here’s a #postcard showing Bob Jones University. Founded in Florida in 1927 as Bob Jones College, it moved to Tennessee in 1933 and then to South Carolina in 1947, becoming bob Jones University. The first three presidents were Bob Jones, Bob Jones Jr and Bob Jones III

I both want and don't want to google Unusual Films ...

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Here’s a #postcard showing the University of Missouri’s research reactor. #Missouri was founded in 1839, and is known as #Mizzou

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Here’s a #postcard showing Gordon’s College, #Aberdeen. #RobertGordon was a successful merchant who in 1750 founded a hospital to give poor boys a good start in life. This became Robert Gordon’s College in 1881 and a University in 1992

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Here’s a #postcard showing the University of #Birmingham. This was the original site of the university, as it grew from Mason College. The buildings are no longer here – demolished in the 1960s when the university had completed its move to Edgbaston

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Brasenose College, #Oxford

The name is thought to come from a door knocker, still in the College’s possession, in the shape of an animal’s nose. It was founded on the site of Brasenose Hall, which existed since at least 1279

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Tottenham Polytechnic. This is now part of the College of North East London.

The card shows Grove House, on Tottenham Green, which the Poly occupied from 1897 til 1936, when it was demolished. The Poly became Tottenham Technical College at that time

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