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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 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.
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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...
carlgombrich
Mar 25, 20156 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...
carlgombrich
Jul 4, 20144 min read
Academic vlogging II
Can a vlog ever be truly academic? What about academic register? The right use of jargon? Are we ‘rushing to print (video)’ when we vlog,...
carlgombrich
Apr 4, 20121 min read
Vlogging and academic work
What are the implications of the move towards video for academic work? For culture? For history? Economically for the protagonists? Some...
carlgombrich
Apr 2, 20122 min read
Assessment in universities
The way we assess students at university is currently subject to some interesting challenges. I discuss two of these challenges in the...
carlgombrich
Apr 1, 20121 min read
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...
carlgombrich
Feb 8, 20124 min read
Interdisciplinarity and individuation
A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks...
carlgombrich
Jan 16, 20124 min read
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...
carlgombrich
Sep 30, 20115 min read
Economist bashing – enough already?
I am one of those who has enjoyed taking a pop at many academic economists recently. Informally and to friends, I have compared academic...
carlgombrich
Sep 28, 20115 min read
Thoughts on the work of J M Greer: The Wealth of Nature
Reading The Wealth of Nature by J M Greer and enjoying it very much. The chapter called The Metaphysics of Money is particularly...
carlgombrich
Sep 28, 20114 min read
Thoughts on entropy, energy and economics
This is one of many blogs in which I try to work out my picture of economics and its implications for our futures. These attempts will...
carlgombrich
Sep 18, 20116 min read
Social science and value judgements
I had a nice conversation with one of my favourite philosophers at UCL recently, a man I respect greatly. His main research area has been...
carlgombrich
Sep 3, 20115 min read
Experts, PhDs, research, employment – and musicians
There is anxiety that the UK is not producing enough PhD level researchers, particularly in science and engineering. The view of some...
carlgombrich
Sep 2, 20114 min read
The good ship Society – a metaphor
Our collective social, political and economic stability is like a ship. This ship travels the waves of history, floating on the seas of...
carlgombrich
Aug 26, 20113 min read
The Financial Crisis 2008 and the Miners’ Crisis 1980s
We are told by the media that any regulation of the financial sector will result in that sector ‘going elsewhere’, taking their business...
carlgombrich
Aug 22, 20113 min read
Debt
A debt that will not be repaid is a theft. A system based on debt only works if the creditors believe they will get their money back....
carlgombrich
Aug 21, 20113 min read
Economics – where are we?
I write as an amateur in economics. By that I mean that no-one has yet paid me for my views on economics, nor do I have any formal...
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Aug 19, 20114 min read
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