Should vice-chancellors’ pay be reduced if academics go on strike? Mechanisms to determine university leaders’ salaries are opaque and unreliable. We need more meaningful metrics, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 1 March
Could metrics help to make better selections for prestigious awards? Prize committees should re-examine nominees with below-average scientometric scores, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 13 September
Declining self-determination is eroding academic motivation Few academics abused the autonomy they used to have – and fewer still complained about their salary, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 6 June
Let’s abolish ethics committees Members lack expertise and groupthink is a constant peril. Better to entrust scrutiny to expert lawyers and ethicists, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 31 March
Sloppy writing is not a sign of sloppy science Accurate reporting of results is important, but meaning is rarely distorted by orthographic or grammatical slips, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 2 February
Universities must do more to promote intellectual humility The Novak Djokovic affair underlines the need to teach that openness to error is the baseline of knowledge, say Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham By Raj Persaud 30 January
Are you suffering from academania? The escalating pressures of university life are resulting in all manner of exotic new psychological disorders. Adrian Furnham opens his casebook By Adrian Furnham 23 December
It is time to start paying peer reviewers As refereeing requests multiply, the demands on willing academics’ time are becoming unsustainable, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 26 October
Forcing needless grant applications is a waste of public money But journals’ open access fees are suddenly increasing researchers’ need for funding, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 4 August
Don’t fixate on promotion Opacity and double standards are infuriating, but the blessings of an academic career are present at all ranks, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 14 July
Celebration of Prince Philip’s stoicism has little meaning for students Qualities of silent endurance and self-containment embodied by the Duke of Edinburgh are unlikely to resonate with, or help, a generation of students faced with adversity, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 17 April
Another journal rejection? Put on your helmet Knock-backs are frequent and unavoidable. But treating referees’ comments with a hard-headed pragmatism lessens the sting, says Adrian Furnham By Adrian Furnham 19 February
Students’ narcissism trumps their work ethic Efforts to convince modern undergraduates to study hard and accept their grades need constant reinforcement, say Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham By Raj Persaud 29 March
A secret best kept: does pay disclosure come at a price? Salary transparency can promote equality but also tends to foment jealousy and strife among academic staff, as Adrian Furnham has seen at first hand By Adrian Furnham 21 September
An algorithm for donating to universities Adrian Furnham makes his case for a discerning approach to philanthropy By Adrian Furnham 10 February
Adrian Furnham on peer review’s swings and roundabouts Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour By Adrian Furnham 23 May
