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
Fees for humanities degrees reach dizzying milestone, raising questions over how many will ever be repaid
Structurally disadvantaged in teaching Australian students, new private colleges face international enrolment veto until they have taught domestic students
Survey highlights ‘price sensitivity’ variations among Australia’s crowded neighbours
Canberra’s model for Atec allocates too little time and money while leaving bureaucrats in control, critics say
Biggest pay packet in at least five years drives average leaders’ pay into seven figures, raising questions over Canberra boss’ surprise departure
榴莲视频 affairs and skills portfolios in new hands, in first changes to Labor government’s ministry
As Australian scheme that encourages professionals to change career expands across border, former academic attests to its value in easing transition
First comprehensive research university to fully switch to block teaching believes it is destined to become ‘more mainstream’
State governments, policy experts and law council present united front against federal proposal
Go8 report outlines 10-year ‘roadmap’ to boost investment, arguing ‘substantial’ change needed
Years of tight funding settlements, exacerbated by high inflation and recent research cuts, have left New Zealand’s higher education and research sectors in a parlous state. Will the comprehensive reviews under way help them dodge the looming cyclone? John Ross reports
While Australia says it wants universities ‘going to the world’, its policies are making it harder
When too many students fail to graduate, small investments can make a world of difference, says commission
La Trobe moniker celebrates a genocidal past, staff and students say
Big business and states join universities in opposing proposed limits
Proposal an improvement on current ‘blunt tools’ that undermine policy and facilitate exploitation, says Australian Labor MP and former international education boss
Universities haemorrhage money as students face months-long waits
Slow easing of Covid border restrictions helped international education avoid purges elsewhere, figures suggest
Generative AI is ‘a bit like teenage snogging – everyone’s doing it although no one really knows how’
‘Outrageous impost’ to fund domestic education initiatives is ‘robbing Ranjit to pay for Richard’
Political and fiscal realities are driving changes in the treatment of a ‘long overlooked’ community
Proposed commission would probe ‘massive surge’ in antisemitic incidents and ‘capitulation to extremists’
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be treated little differently from their privileged cousins, critics say
Kiwi institutions committed to ‘academic audit as a concept’ but look to save costs
