CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity, and some related things like Expertise and Future of Work

Welcome to my new blog. You can read more about me in the About section. I'm looking forward to getting back to 'writing and thinking out loud' about Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity and other things that interest me. You can talk to me either here or on my linked Twitter feed.

Towards curriculum as network

I'm going to do series of blogs on curriculum as network. This reconception aims to impact standard educational thinking on learning...

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May 19, 20214 min read

Never trust someone who promises you a 'revolution' in education

I had some interesting pushback recently on Twitter about how the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), the new university we are...

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Mar 13, 20213 min read

Education FOMO

It's the greatest age ever for learning - provided you have a phone and decent internet connection. It's the overwhelming, over-abundant,...

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Feb 13, 20212 min read

Back on the Blog

I'm going to start blogging again. Looking forward to getting stuff out there and having some feedback. Photo - Quincey Jones, Wikipedia

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Jan 10, 20211 min read

Forms of Creativity – A Perspective from Higher Education

The text below is the public talk (lightly edited) which I gave at the Genoa Festival of Science in 2016. 20 minute read The title I was...

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Nov 12, 201612 min read

5 minutes of thoughts on integrated curricula and liberal arts

Below is the text of a short talk I gave at a conference on Liberal Arts organised by Benedictus on Friday 24 June 2016. * I’m not sure...

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Jul 5, 20163 min read

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions in Higher Education

I think that most important decisions, realisations and insights in life are essentially irrational, or a least a-rational, processes. ...

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May 24, 20166 min read

Learning and Assessment. Back to the future.

Every summer my father, R F Gombrich, gives a course in Pali for anyone who is interested. Typically about 14-20 students come on the...

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Sep 30, 20153 min read

Interdisciplinarity and Intellectual Excitement

I’ve been blogging on the connection between studying at university and work recently. I think this is important because the overwhelming...

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Jun 22, 20153 min read

Expertise

What is expertise? ‘Expert skill and knowledge in a particular field’. What is a field? That is much harder. Is this woman an expert in...

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Jun 16, 20154 min read

The evidence for evidence

Most great scientific advances take place before there is evidence for them. Scientists follow their hunches, then collect data which...

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May 24, 20152 min read

Two problems with academic specialisation

One theme of this blog is the relative importance of specialising over staying broader in your education while at university –...

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May 1, 20153 min read

Rigour in interdisciplinary education

What is rigour in education? A rigorous education must be intellectually demanding. It must require students to present work which is...

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May 1, 20152 min read

Education for ‘specialisation’ in the knowledge economy

There are many reasons to believe that a liberal and interdisciplinary education in arts and sciences is the best to prepare you for work...

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Mar 25, 20156 min read

The Knowledge Economy and end of the inherent vs instrumental value conflict in education

‘The Knowledge Economy is the future of the world economy,’ professional services firm Deloitte announced in their report of February...

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Mar 24, 20157 min read

Explicit vs Implicit in Education

So, I get consulted a lot these days about what we’re doing at UCL, how come our students are able successfully to study such radical...

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Mar 6, 20152 min read

Very short blog about generalists and specialists

Greeks – generalists Romans – specialists (notable exceptions: Varro, Cicero and a few others) Scholastics – specialists Renaissance –...

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Jan 6, 20151 min read

Liberal Education for a Complex World

Here is the talk I gave as one of the keynotes at the ‘Arts and Sciences for Global Leaders’ event at Hitotsubashi University in Japan in...

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Jan 1, 201520 min read

Working out loud

I first heard this phrase from Philip Sheldrake – though he told me it was from somewhere else originally. Basically it means writing...

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Sep 3, 20143 min read

Work, skills, education and 21st century blarney

Had a good ol’ chat with Tom Bennett on Twitter last night. In case you don’t know Tom (and neither do I, really) he’s a superb edu...

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Jul 4, 20144 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Towards curriculum as network

Never trust someone who promises you a 'revolution' in education

Education FOMO

Back on the Blog

Forms of Creativity – A Perspective from Higher Education

5 minutes of thoughts on integrated curricula and liberal arts

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions in Higher Education

Learning and Assessment. Back to the future.

Interdisciplinarity and Intellectual Excitement

Expertise

The evidence for evidence

Two problems with academic specialisation

Rigour in interdisciplinary education

Education for ‘specialisation’ in the knowledge economy

The Knowledge Economy and end of the inherent vs instrumental value conflict in education

Explicit vs Implicit in Education

Very short blog about generalists and specialists

Liberal Education for a Complex World

Working out loud

Work, skills, education and 21st century blarney

CONTACT

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