CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Many students tell us the most valuable thing they get from university is the small classes, the time when they get to interact with...

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...

Exciting stuff happening at MITx. This is the sort of challenge to higher education and to education in general we like to think about....

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

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

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...

I feel at risk once again of getting sucked into the discipline of interdisciplinarity, prompted this time by some excellent articles on...

Lots on the future of universities in the air. I’m sorry I missed the series at Cambridge with Martin Rees, Stefan Collini and others...

‘We can only teach ourselves’ is a phrase one hears in educational circles. I guess this is true on some level, but I do not want to turn...

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...

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...