CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Below is the text of a short talk I gave at a conference on Liberal Arts organised by Benedictus on Friday 24 June 2016. * I’m not sure...

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...

So, I get consulted a lot these days about what we’re doing at UCL, how come our students are able successfully to study such radical...

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...

In some ways the concept of interdisciplinarity is easy: when doing research or when learning, follow the problem, not ‘the subject’....

I read Toby Young’s piece on ‘The Blob‘ over the weekend. Some of it I agreed with, some of it I didn’t. Here’s a few sections of what...

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...

Some people don’t like this phrase. It was first popularised by Alvin Toffler – he of Future Shock. Those who think the ’21st century...

This is a question I am increasingly asked. It’s a well fair question to someone leading a big course which includes a lot of innovation....

The work of Fernand Gobet and Herbert Simon seems to indicate that expertise is ‘domain specific’. That is, you can only learn to be an...

The last blog was a venture out on a limb to reclaim some of the ground for ‘dilettantism’ in work and in study. The intuition comes from...

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

I attended the Future Learning conference at Stephen Perse School on Wednesday. The school is in a tiny street in the centre of Cambridge...

I’ve been bigging up interdisciplinarity and generalism as something we must look to provide in UK HE alongside more traditional...