The phrase "confer knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to talk about someone giving knowledge to another person. For example: "The professor conferred knowledge on the class during the lecture."
This union was supposed to confer knowledge of all intelligible things on the individual; the supreme goal, therefore, was purely intellectual in nature.
"They don't realise that graduate studies not only confer knowledge within a very special and perhaps narrow field, but also a general skill in methodology, analysis, and knowledge-seeking," says Inger Grufman of the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers.
Perhaps, as proposed by radical embodied theories (e.g., Wilson & Golonka, 2013), motorically acting upon the world confers knowledge otherwise unavailable.
As a result, notices that do not identify the specific location of the alleged infringement are not sufficient to confer actual knowledge on the ISP.
It is the aim of this programme to confer vocational knowledge in addition to some general education.
The late prince consort would approve of its vocational bias, and the success many of it graduates enjoy in their chosen fields (and the benefits they confer upon our "knowledge economy").
And he enjoys the power conferred by his knowledge of her faults.
This built the authoritative knowledge conferred on them by the community [ 51].
Thus, all data and knowledge conferred by the paper, once disclosed by their publication, will remain freely available to the public.
If this is considered in the context of Luhmann's theories of power, 29 the GP's expert knowledge confers power over the patient.
Indeed, informed prevention has proven the key practical benefit that genetic knowledge confers on clinical practice (10), and it is widely believed that mental health services can be improved by a firmer grounding in genetics and developmental biology (4).
