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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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5 minutes of thoughts on integrated curricula and liberal arts
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...
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Jul 5, 20163 min read
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions in Higher Education
I think that most important decisions, realisations and insights in life are essentially irrational, or a least a-rational, processes. ...
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May 24, 20166 min read
Interdisciplinarity and Intellectual Excitement
I’ve been blogging on the connection between studying at university and work recently. I think this is important because the overwhelming...
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Jun 22, 20153 min read
Rigour in interdisciplinary education
What is rigour in education? A rigorous education must be intellectually demanding. It must require students to present work which is...
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May 1, 20152 min read
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...
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Mar 25, 20156 min read
The Knowledge Economy and end of the inherent vs instrumental value conflict in education
‘The Knowledge Economy is the future of the world economy,’ professional services firm Deloitte announced in their report of February...
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Mar 24, 20157 min read
Explicit vs Implicit in Education
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...
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Mar 6, 20152 min read
Liberal Education for a Complex World
Here is the talk I gave as one of the keynotes at the ‘Arts and Sciences for Global Leaders’ event at Hitotsubashi University in Japan in...
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Jan 1, 201520 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...
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Jul 4, 20144 min read
Wading In
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...
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Apr 4, 20146 min read
Academic Empathy
An occasional paper given at The Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (FIGS) within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL November,...
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Dec 8, 201314 min read
Generation Blend
This year on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL, several students studied MOOCs and used online sources alongside their undergraduate modules...
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Jul 2, 20136 min read
Would you do your own degree?
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....
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May 18, 20135 min read
General expertise – the gap between rote learning and a different sort of mastery
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...
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May 8, 20134 min read
Holistic Hijack
I had in mind to do a proper academic blog on an idea I have that liberal education has generally not flourished in the UK due to a...
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Feb 9, 20132 min read
Two cautionary tales
I’ve been bigging up interdisciplinarity and generalism as something we must look to provide in UK HE alongside more traditional...
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Oct 30, 20122 min read
The Impulse to Generalism
I spoke recently at the London Expertise Group, a group of philosophers, psychologists and educationalists, about generalism in...
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Oct 21, 20125 min read
Specialism, Generalism, Details and the Big Picture
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...
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Sep 18, 20124 min read
Can we talk about leadership?
Can we talk about leadership? Specifically, can we talk about the relationship between leadership and undergraduate degrees? I have a...
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Jul 17, 20122 min read
‘Difficult Thinking’ and Interdisciplinarity
At the SRHE conference on Structuring Knowledge last week, Gareth Williams said that we need people in our universities to do the...
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Jul 5, 20125 min read
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