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
We want commercial success but can’t build it on an empty research larder, university lobby tells Canberra
Recession-driven domestic surge more than compensates for loss of international students at some institutions Down Under
Debates around transgender rights illustrate why intellectual freedom rules must be in place before touchy topics arise, say authors
Superficial thinking in Canberra is squandering transformative opportunity for higher education, Brisbane forum hears
As classes resume on Australian campuses, anxieties persist about the year ahead – domestically, and particularly internationally
Students who ‘strategically’ jettison subjects early are among the least likely to complete courses, Australian research finds
Universities must develop their own cultures of academic freedom rather than borrowing them, according to Australian authors
Liberal politicians glorify Robert Menzies but few share his love for universities, says former Melbourne v-c Glyn Davis
Government encourages shift away from reliance on international student revenue, but expert questions whether this is possible
Top-ranked Melbourne the latest to declare a surplus in the face of pandemic
While notching up a leadership position can make a woman a role model, her treatment can be equally influential, professor says
Chinese ministry sanctions Australia’s joint programmes even though analyses highlight endemic problems in foreign teaching collaborations
Students share in small permanent increase to welfare payments
Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them
Australia’s post-Covid employment ‘circuit breaker’: casual professors, a revised 40/40/20 split and no more 18-month payouts
行业人士最担心的事或使成千上万大学员工失业并使该国损失数百亿美元
Author of a comprehensive appraisal of university finances says officials want universities to keep money flows on the straight and narrow
Education department asserts right to approve language course closures while insisting that it ‘does not intervene’
Australian department ‘erroneously’ removed protection for former education minister’s pet courses
Deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia is latest crisis to afflict a Western administrator in region
Warnings that some universities could become master’s-free zones overlook progress during the pandemic, vice-chancellors say
Study says academics should highlight unreviewed papers’ uncertainty
As military overlords revert to type, concerns mount over fate of detained Australian economist
Crisis precipitated by proposal that could have shifted pan-Pacific university’s headquarters from Fiji, embattled leader says
