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
Union demands parliamentary inquiry as instances continue to emerge
As Australia mulls ‘hard’ caps on domestic as well as international students, expert warns of unintended consequences
Canberra quietly scrapped plans to join world’s biggest research collaboration scheme in mid-2023
Proposed body must have ‘mundane’ expertise and avoid being the ‘long grass of policy’, new group says
Accord panellists’ ‘preferred options’ also include ‘equity levy’ on high-fee courses and no change to international education
Crackdown proposed without any forethought about the broader consequences, Press Club hears
Government’s proposal will intensify the problem it is supposed to solve while ‘wreaking havoc’ on universities’ finances, universities say
Proposed visa caps, soaring rejection rates and ‘anti-China’ perceptions scaring off country’s most valuable student cohort
The science is ‘just physics’ and the human chemistry matters more, says academic behind a sustainable development programme that’s going global
If rich countries poach your nurses you should ‘build more nursing schools’, conference hears
Most initiatives are well-meaning but ‘short-term, scattered, uncoordinated and incoherent’
Universities might be in the ‘sweet spot to redefine the future’, but they still need to work with government and business, says leader
A fixation on publishing in ‘academic comic books’ is subverting the values permeating business schools, conference hears
Australians are less convinced about the upsides of the educational relationship but also less concerned about the downsides, survey suggests
It may be a ‘hard case to make’, but admitting more refugee students is in low-income countries’ interests, conference hears
As climate catastrophes gain steam, early warnings offer the ‘most effective’ safety shield, modellers say
Caps being pursued ‘at universities’ request’ and will mirror treatment of domestic students, education minister says
In rerun of US Congress hearing, Australian university executives reprimanded over both insensitivity to antisemitism and ‘complicity’ in Gaza slaughter
Course cuts will ‘revitalise’ language offerings, make students more employable and ‘address global challenges’, university claims
International student caps will endanger research funding just as a leisurely R&D review considers how to fix it, Senate committee hears
Compulsory national guidelines for Australian university executive salaries will not necessarily reduce them
Economic carnage looms as Australian political parties adopt unity ticket in treating overseas learners as cannon fodder
Postdocs risk being ruled ineligible after biding their time to optimise prospects of success
V-c’s offer to meet with encampment to review defence and security research called both an ‘empty deal’ and a ‘capitulation’
