Kant is my co-driver: philosophy and driverless cars
Should autonomous vehicles have ethics programmed in? asks Alan Ryan
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Pharmacy course ‘cut entry standard’ to recruit students
Pressure from senior management at Uclan to increase student numbers led to pharmacy school over-recruiting, General Pharmaceutical Council finds
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The golden age of TV? It just might be 2015
In today’s multichannel landscape, says Fred Inglis, there are more bright, wondering eyes on the world than Babestations
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What price trust? The cost of breaking student loan promises
Changing current students’ debt repayment terms would damage public faith in government, say John Thompson and Bahram Bekhradnia
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The REF: why did it cost so much?
The sums spent on the exercise were exorbitant and the money could be better spent, argues Derek Sayer
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 30 July 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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The week in higher education – 30 July 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Student support: don’t shut down the debate
We write in response to the article “Offa pushes sector to do more to widen access” (News, 16 July), which states that “investment in financial support such as scholarships will continue to decrease…...
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Paper weights
Bureaucracy has become a hot topic after the recent publication of David Graeber’s book The Utopia of Rules (“Compliant captives in a paper cage”, Features, 21 May). In terms of form-filling, I would...
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Advanced but alone
Can we blame technology for the social isolation of the humanities and social science research students (“Sector must address ‘dehumanising and isolating’ aspects of PhD study”, News, 9 July)? In my...
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The usual suspects
As managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection, the only US academic journal on mystery, detective and crime fiction, I share Richard Bradford’s concern (“Beaten to a pulp”, Culture, 4 June)...
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Home and away
Nick Hillman has overlooked the effect of geographical mobility on social mobility in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (“They would walk 500 miles”, Features, 23 July). Moving to another city also involved...