I asked my sister, teaching at Oxford (in a sensible field), what the expected outcome of a PPE degree was, fantasising that it might have something to do with understanding something about politics and economics. Apparently, it doesn't, it is simply a way of being able to say one has a degree from Oxford.

I suggested that such a degree might include an element of studying life down the Cowley Road. She said that she knew a restaurateur on that road who had had to deal with the aftermath of a field trip by the Bullingdon hooligans.

I would have thought the philosophy element might have included something about ethics. Apparently it omits that as well.

Penny