John Ross joined Times Higher Education?as?APAC editor in February 2018. He was previously higher education and science correspondent with The Australian newspaper. He has won the National Press Club¡¯s Higher Education Journalist of the Year award three times, most recently in 2022, and has been shortlisted six times. He holds a communications degree from what is now the University of Technology Sydney. He swims in the Pacific Ocean every day, drinks too much coffee and plays Galician bagpipes quite badly.
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Articles by John Ross
But promised infrastructure and research commercialisation funding could stretch thin
Universities keep seeking local jobs for their overseas graduates, despite ¡®massive¡¯ economic pivot to Asia
Australia¡¯s big talk on science aspirations overlooks the skills needed to make it all happen, critics say
Campuses almost devoid of people nevertheless remained hotbeds of sexual harassment and assault
Canberra¡¯s policy changes helped turn its big-ticket infrastructure schemes into pipe dreams, university-industry report argues
After fighting off attempt to expel them, academics resign from learned academy over ¡®untoward political focus¡¯
Penalties for student snitches and curbs on Confucius Institutes and Thousand Talents Programme among dozens of recommendations from security committee
New Zealand now perceived poorly on factors where it used to excel, survey finds
Huge national survey finds that half of students know little or nothing about formal reporting mechanisms
War in Ukraine may reshape university internationalisation, but most academics do not expect a knockout blow
¡®Task force¡¯ to facilitate two-way flow of students and graduates
Parliamentarians clash on funding discretion and whether it should continue, but agree on need for ARC review
Ostensibly family-friendly work arrangements assumed to benefit women can have the opposite effect, a study of academics¡¯ lockdown experiences suggests
Global horrors reverberate in far-off campuses, widening the gap between students and their prosperous surrounds
Biomedical engineer talks about problem-solving, the importance of monitoring foetal cardiac health and why no one has got it quite right on STEM education for women
Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid¡¯s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests
Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit
Slump in applications to country¡¯s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students
Vocational and higher education get equal billing, as Australian university groups unite in jobs-focused election spiel
Police, politicians, doctors, cleaners and school students share Southern Cross campus as an emergency base
Data useful ¡®if considered in context¡¯, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ¡®dangerous¡¯
Australian study probes the difficulties facing latter-year students ¨C and the ¡®balancing act¡¯ required of their lecturers
Dispute over indigenous knowledge ¡®not amenable to resolution¡¯, investigation panel finds, as New Zealand society pledges ¡®helpful and constructive¡¯ dialogue
Proposal to ¡®link performance and funding¡¯ the latest in an interventionist trend
