Your education is a work of art
So often these days we talk of education as a mechanical or, at best, physical process: you need to ‘tick boxes’, ‘jump through hoops’,...
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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 tab, top left. 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.
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Reclaiming Generalism
Ask yourself this: would you prefer your prime minister to have studied one thing at university or to have had a more rounded higher...
T-shaped people, pancake people and Stickle Brick people
A couple of months back, Chris Rapley reminded me of the description ‘T-shaped people‘, started in the 1990s. This phrase is used to...
Breadth vs Depth in university education
Health Warning: I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep separate my personal views about education, as expressed on this blog, and...
Humanities – a source of future value?
This is my first vlog. I discuss how recent reports from think-tanks and discussions with major employers point to a re-evaluating of the...
Design for Learning vs Emergent Outcomes
There is a growing interest in what is called Design for Learning. I am reading a nice book on the subject by Julie Dirksen, and Aaron...
International students and UK credentials
Since I blogged on the dangers of UK universities relying on their credentials in the current climate of change in HE, I’ve been thinking...
Interdisciplinarity and individuation
A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks...
The web, ways of learning, interdisciplinarity and a history of knowledge
Our first round of applicants came to the Open Day of UCL Arts and Sciences BASc last week. It was a very enjoyable day for us and great...
The Khan Academy and undergraduate education
I’ve been struck today by this story on the BBC pages, which pulls together things I have been writing on the blog since I started and...
Global anxieties, local hope
My current job takes me out to talk to young people. I visit schools, and also they come to our university to discuss the Arts and...
Series learning versus parallel learning
One of the principal criticisms one meets when setting up an interdisciplinary degree is that what the student learns will be...
10,000 hours and interdisciplinary learning
The notion that 10,000 hours is what is required to reach expertise in a given area has been popularised by Malcolm Gladwell and appeared...
Cross-reference theory of understanding – the Searchlight Metaphor
I hold that you get the best understanding of something by looking at it from many different angles. You can think of this as...
‘Value for Money’ in university education
There is concern among students, their parents and guardians, politicians and the media that university students should get ‘value for...
Arts and Sciences – first blog
Welcome to my personal blog. Over time I aim to post on many topics here – from my work on UCL’s Arts and Sciences (BASc) degree, to...
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