The week in higher education – 12 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Confucius Institute crackdown predicted as global inquiries mount
Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts
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Chief executive of defunct English regulator paid £178K on early exit
Hefce's Madeleine Atkins received payment in lieu of salary for remainder of contract, but declined 'redundancy payment'
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Career advice: how to manage a public relations crisis
The dawn of the digital age means universities must rethink how they respond to negative headlines, according to a new book
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Interview with Rabia Bhuiyan
The women’s rights lawyer on growing up in Bangladesh, meeting Mother Teresa and uniting against patriarchy
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Ivan Davis, 1932-2018
Leading pianist who spent more than four decades at the University of Miami remembered
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Disciplines must relax if the big challenges are to be met
Faculties without borders are the key to turning multidisciplinarity into more than a buzzword, says Duncan Ivison
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University music courses are hitting some bum notes
The curricular dominance of popular music may sell tickets but belies the point of a musical education, says Sam Richards
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Big Data needs bigger oversight
The Cambridge Analytica controversy flags up the ethical perils of research with Big Data – especially when it has commercial potential, says John Holmwood
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The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece, by Robin Osborne
There’s more to the vases of ancient Athens than initially meets the eye, finds Barbara Graziosi
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Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur, edited by Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau
Davina Quinlivan ponders the importance of the French capital and its representation on screen to the development of film studies
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Books interview: Kalwant Bhopal
The author and professor of education and social justice discusses white privilege, Leonard Cohen, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
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Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism, by Nisha Kapoor
Laleh Khalili ponders how the eschewing of Muslim suspects’ human rights affects us all
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Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into – and Out of – Violent Extremism, by Michel Kimmel
Matthew Feldman considers an exploration of the perception of masculinity and its effects on extremism