Kant is my co-driver: philosophy and driverless cars Should autonomous vehicles have ethics programmed in? asks Alan Ryan By Alan Ryan 30 July
Threats to universities go unheard amid sound and the fury A babel of voices are drowning out the many real threats to intellectual freedom, warns Alan Ryan By Alan Ryan 18 June
A select few: student recruitment in the US Alan Ryan muses on ironies and idiosyncrasies in higher education 7 May
US universities: troubles? They've got 'em The headline crises are just the start, observes Alan Ryan 26 March
Soldiers of the NFL American football is a contemporary moral equivalent of war, says Alan Ryan 12 February
Old campus battles roll on into new year Alan Ryan is dismayed to see that the US is still bedevilled by lethal racism 1 January
Mass movements in higher education Alan Ryan on the parallels between Moocs and the early days of The Open University 13 November
Happy valley for techies, less so for others Alan Ryan on fears that Silicon dreams and start-ups might leave humanities in the dark 2 October
Killer instincts: capital punishment in America Alan Ryan muses on the persistence of US support for the death penalty 21 August
Who gets crushed by the debt burden? Alan Ryan considers the size and seriousness of the US student loans ‘crisis’ 10 July
Commencement conundrums Alan Ryan on a recent US wave of student protests over high-profile guests 29 May
Scholarships? Aid? Let’s make a deal US institutions, students and athletes must strike the right arrangements to stay afloat, says Alan Ryan 17 April
Teaching we can do; learning’s out of our hands What parents and schools fail to do in 18 years is unlikely to be accomplished in a couple of courses, says Alan Ryan 23 January
Good reasons for UK students to study in the US Generous funding and quality tuition make US universities an attractive choice, says Alan Ryan 5 December
James Madison and an ungovernable America Blame the ‘father of the Constitution’ for the mess in the US, says Alan Ryan 24 October
Huge variation in US academics’ pay Alan Ryan reflects on the lack of uniformity in salaries for leaders of American higher education institutions 12 September
Humanities crisis? Which humanities crisis? A sense of impending doom is nothing new in higher education, says Alan Ryan 1 August
America’s unthinking majority US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers 20 June
The first lesson of higher education: be prepared The work of making students ‘college-ready’ must begin sooner, says Alan Ryan 9 May
Build from the ground up Why reinvent higher education? Basic literacy matters more, says Alan Ryan 14 February
Political absurdities The US Constitution is flawed but many Americans don’t see it, says Alan Ryan 3 January
Inconvenient truths Alan Ryan asks: how many Sandys will it take for us to change our ways? 15 November
Transatlantic traffic When it comes to the academy, influence flows both ways, argues Alan Ryan 8 March
Still room for merit alone? Alan Ryan fears for the deserving if US-style admissions make it to the UK 26 January
Thinking of a Master Plan Alan Ryan on how California’s famed system might work in the UK 15 December
Kropotkin's heirs apparent Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement 3 November
States of emergency Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation 22 September
Too much information Cutting-edge researchers aren’t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan 11 August
That sinking feeling US undergraduates' lack of learning bodes ill for the UK, says Alan Ryan 24 February
Universally unhelpful The coalition's consensus policies manage to benefit no one, says Alan Ryan 13 January
A big bang is off the cards With Browne's vision fading, Alan Ryan bemoans a lack of creative thinking 25 November
Not just how, but why Insight and independent thinking are truly vocational skills, argues Alan Ryan 14 October
Opinion: ‘A free-for-all, and expensive for some’ Alan Ryan proposes that there should be no cap on tuition fees, grants for the talented poor should return and universities should lose their safety net 11 October
Leader: Concerns, public and private For-profit providers need scrutiny, but so do their non-profit cousins, to ensure the delivery of quality education efficiently By Ann Mroz 9 September
Just a few rotten apples? US for-profits are a mixed bag but they meet a real need, says Alan Ryan 2 September
Greed is the going rate Don't blame v-cs, argues Alan Ryan. It is the entire social system that is corrupt 10 June
Jumping through hoops Alan Ryan on the US academy's annual lotteries, both scholarly and athletic 1 April
From our cold, dead hands America's gun culture is a symptom of its deep political malaise, says Alan Ryan 11 March
It's hardly the Dark Ages Alan Ryan favours imagination over exaggeration when it comes to cutbacks 28 January
Offing the cap Alan Ryan says Labour would be best off abrogating all responsibility for fees 17 December
Future present in the US We should learn from the American experience with fees, says Alan Ryan 12 November
Practical implications Alan Ryan says technical training is vital - and must be funded properly 8 October
Don't go on the defensive Alan Ryan ponders why institutions are so uptight about freedom of information 3 September
Let's relax about fairness This talk of social mobility is a poor form of radicalism, says Alan Ryan 30 July
Well, what did you expect? The burgeoning culture of complaints delivers no surprises for Alan Ryan 25 June
Sorry, you haven't a clue Hefce's criticism of Cambridge's governance is plain wrong, says Alan Ryan 16 April
An Ofqual, not QAA, is needed for standards Inspectorate to approve degrees would do sector good, MPs are told. Rebecca Attwood reports By Rebecca Attwood 2 April
Twitter feedback to help Government rate universities Initiative part of wider plans to bring higher education in line with new media age and reality talent shows. Sarah Cunnane reports 1 April
