CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

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

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...

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,...

What are the implications of the move towards video for academic work? For culture? For history? Economically for the protagonists? Some...

The way we assess students at university is currently subject to some interesting challenges. I discuss two of these challenges in the...

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...

A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks...

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...

I am one of those who has enjoyed taking a pop at many academic economists recently. Informally and to friends, I have compared academic...

Reading The Wealth of Nature by J M Greer and enjoying it very much. The chapter called The Metaphysics of Money is particularly...

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...

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...

There is anxiety that the UK is not producing enough PhD level researchers, particularly in science and engineering. The view of some...

Our collective social, political and economic stability is like a ship. This ship travels the waves of history, floating on the seas of...

We are told by the media that any regulation of the financial sector will result in that sector ‘going elsewhere’, taking their business...

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....

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...