CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

I tweeted out something about universities as places of formation. Oliver Quinlan said he liked the way it was expressed and asked if I...

An occasional paper given at The Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (FIGS) within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL November,...

This year on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL, several students studied MOOCs and used online sources alongside their undergraduate modules...

This blog should be read with its companion: Being Serious One of the fun things about being part of the ‘knowledge revolution’  is that...

The Approaches to Knowledge course on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL has now finished. For this module most of the lectures were ‘flipped’...

I spoke recently at the London Expertise Group, a group of philosophers, psychologists and educationalists, about generalism in...

Interdisciplinarity is in vogue in education. It’s been in vogue in the US for a while and throughout most of the last 100 years some...

Can we talk about leadership? Specifically, can we talk about the relationship between leadership and undergraduate degrees? I have a...