CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

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 tweeted out something about universities as places of formation. Oliver Quinlan said he liked the way it was expressed and asked if I...

I blogged recently on dilettantism. This was intended as a piece of provocation. But it was also, in my view, an optimistic take on the...

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

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...

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

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

My job takes me to meet and speak with people who have radically different ideas about the nature of knowledge: its origins, its history,...

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

Encouraged by recent discussions of failure in learning (both here at Wimbledon High School for Girls and at the upcoming PELeCON...

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

Inspired by Khan, reading more at Steve Wheeler’s blog and many other links, I am thinking more about how we can use technology at...

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...

Currently my work has me thinking about future employment, the world of work and the role of universities in preparing students for this...