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 Adrian Furnham 3月 1日
Could metrics help to make better selections for prestigious awards? Prize committees should re-examine nominees with below-average scientometric scores, says Adrian Furnham Adrian Furnham 9月 13日
让我们取消学术道德委员会吧 阿德里安·弗恩海姆(Adrian Furnham)表示,委员们缺乏专业知识和群体思维通常是十分危险的,所以最好将审查委托给专业律师和伦理学家 Adrian Furnham 3月 31日
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 Raj Persaud 1月 30日
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 Adrian Furnham 12月 23日
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 Adrian Furnham 8月 4日
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 Adrian Furnham 7月 14日
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 Adrian Furnham 4月 17日
又被一份期刊拒绝了?戴上你的头盔吧 阿德里安·弗纳姆(Adrian Furnham)说,挫折是常见且不可避免的,但以强硬的实用主义态度对待评审的意见可以减轻这种刺痛感 Adrian Furnham 2月 19日
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 Raj Persaud 3月 29日
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 Adrian Furnham 9月 21日
An algorithm for donating to universities Adrian Furnham makes his case for a discerning approach to philanthropy Adrian Furnham 2月 10日
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 Adrian Furnham 5月 23日