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
While Antipodean institutions have fended off competition from Asia, the full impacts of Covid are yet to flow through
Notions of reconciliation and treaty should be treated as ongoing journeys rather than destinations, summit hears
Economist says scrutiny could boost transparency of university accounts, provide benchmarking advice and avoid risky excesses
Management blamed for ¡®constraining of voice¡¯ that corrals public interventions into academics¡¯ disciplinary areas
Australian research suggests swapping assignments is more prevalent than buying or selling them
Australian findings on receptiveness to Covid misinformation have implications for teaching as well as engagement
Fears for physics pipeline as 32 researchers relinquish up to A$22m for citing preprints
Review of Australia¡¯s research assessment exercise focused on known problems and left inadequate time to fix them, critic says
Government told to disclose impacts on academics as outrage escalates over preprints rule
Australia¡¯s largest regional university the latest to choose a leader from outside academia
Proposed redundancies target science, engineering and IT ¨C disciplines supposedly favoured by funding reforms
Analysis of Australian job advertisements points to recovery, particularly in non-traditional research
While the dangers can be extreme in autocracies and war zones, nowhere is immune
ARC says it communicated rule change clearly, but applicants say it forces them to plagiarise to qualify for funding
One in five public health researchers pressured to conceal or change their findings, study finds
Crawford Medal-winning historian on why New Zealand doesn¡¯t have borders, big screens are a good thing and research grant applications are too long
Some students still cheat despite thinking it is illegal, international survey finds
New paper dismantles arguments for higher education¡¯s latest ¡®craze¡¯
Electoral rather than immunological considerations could determine when international students are allowed into Australia
Strategist also warns that politicisation of funding means universities in countries most dependent on the government would fare worst
Tanya Plibersek proposes accord with political opponents, while former Liberals accuse ex-colleagues of lacking leadership
Education minister concedes impact of plummeting international enrolments, but says things would be worse without intervention
EY ¡®thought experiment¡¯ probes a 2030 where teaching costs have evaporated and universities have lost their primacy
Access and safety in the one package, as island nation banks its Covid management success
