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...

I think that most important decisions, realisations and insights in life are essentially irrational, or a least a-rational, processes. ...

I’ve been blogging on the connection between studying at university and work recently. I think this is important because the overwhelming...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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