CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Every summer my father, R F Gombrich, gives a course in Pali for anyone who is interested. Typically about 14-20 students come on the...

What is rigour in education? A rigorous education must be intellectually demanding. It must require students to present work which is...

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

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

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

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...

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...