CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

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

This year I am tutoring some maths again. I’ve missed it and it was nice to find my brain in decent shape – after 5 years away from teach...

Some of the most sceptical remarks about a liberal/interdisciplinary education come from those who are experts in established academic di...

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 maj...

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

At the SRHE conference on Structuring Knowledge last week, Gareth Williams said that we need people in our universities to do the ‘diffic...

So often these days we talk of education as a mechanical or, at best, physical process: you need to ‘tick boxes’, ‘jump through hoops’, ‘...

Ask yourself this: would you prefer your prime minister to have studied one thing at university or to have had a more rounded higher educ...

A couple of months back, Chris Rapley reminded me of the description ‘T-shaped people‘, started in the 1990s. This phrase is used to desc...

In this vlog I float some questions about the way we visualise certain concepts and processes in education. 1. Why do we think of one typ...

Health Warning: I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep separate my personal views about education, as expressed on this blog, and...

I had an excellent day at the PELeCON at Plymouth University, despite a mad dash to get there and a chest infection. I learned a great de...

Here is the link to my Echo 360 lecturecast on ‘Five Steps to Successful Flipping’, which I gave at the HEA assessment event in UCL on Fe...

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...

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 Sa...

A few months back now, there was an interesting debate between Steve Wheeler and Larry Sanger about, essentially, the value of learning f...

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...

‘I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member’, so said Groucho – as Woody Allen tells us in Annie Hall, if you can’t...

A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks t...

Reading Daniel Ariely’s Predictably Irrational. I like his suggestion that we might all be an ‘agglomeration of multiple selves.’  This s...