CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

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

When you have two or three degrees and a couple of other strings to your bow, friends and colleagues can be flattering and start to use...

Here’s two things I have never been very good at: academic referencing and punctuation. It might seem odd that a teacher at a superb...

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....

‘I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member’, so said Groucho – as Woody Allen tells us in Annie Hall, if you can’t...

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...

Our first round of applicants came to the Open Day of UCL Arts and Sciences BASc last week.  It was a very enjoyable day for us and great...

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...

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...

My friend Peter Gibson told me that if you are happy you are not supposed to want to sleep too much: you want to be awake to enjoy as...

‘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...

I am one of those who has enjoyed taking a pop at many academic economists recently. Informally and to friends, I have compared academic...

Reading The Wealth of Nature by J M Greer and enjoying it very much. The chapter called The Metaphysics of Money is particularly...

One of the principal criticisms one meets when setting up an interdisciplinary degree is that what the student learns will be...

This is one of many blogs in which I try to work out my picture of economics and its implications for our futures. These attempts will...