Kant is my co-driver: philosophy and driverless cars
Should autonomous vehicles have ethics programmed in? asks Alan Ryan

Should autonomous vehicles have ethics programmed in? asks Alan Ryan

Pressure from senior management at Uclan to increase student numbers led to pharmacy school over-recruiting, General Pharmaceutical Council finds

In today鈥檚 multichannel landscape, says Fred Inglis, there are more bright, wondering eyes on the world than Babestations

Changing current students鈥 debt repayment terms would damage public faith in government, say John Thompson and Bahram Bekhradnia

The sums spent on the exercise were exorbitant and the money could be better spent, argues Derek Sayer

Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
We write in response to the article 鈥淥ffa pushes sector to do more to widen access鈥 (News, 16 July), which states that 鈥渋nvestment in financial support such as scholarships will continue to decrease鈥...
Bureaucracy has become a hot topic after the recent publication of David Graeber鈥檚 book The Utopia of Rules (鈥淐ompliant captives in a聽paper cage鈥, Features, 21 May). In terms of form-filling, I would...
Can we blame technology for the social isolation of the humanities and social science research students (鈥淪ector must address 鈥榙ehumanising and isolating鈥 aspects of PhD study鈥, News, 9聽July)? In my...
As managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection, the only US academic journal on mystery, detective and crime fiction, I share Richard Bradford鈥檚 concern (鈥淏eaten to a pulp鈥, Culture, 4 June)...
Nick Hillman has overlooked the effect of geographical mobility on social mobility in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (鈥淭hey would walk 500 miles鈥, Features, 23 July). Moving to another city also involved...