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
‘Why is being incredibly successful a problem?’ asks Universities Australia chair Margaret Gardner
Governing body neglecting its responsibilities, says union branch president and former senate member
Separate survey uncovers widespread opposition to recent research funding cuts
Community attitudes questionnaire also finds that Australians want caps on international students but not domestic students
Sir Fraser Stoddart says the most rewarding element of his work has been supervising research students, who supported him personally after his wife’s death
Business and academia accuse each other of ‘more aggressive’ assertion of intellectual property rights
Australian and New Zealand open access advocates want more attention paid to ‘green’ model
Researchers must ‘put on the gloves’ and bring the fight to their critics, says Arizona State professor
Foreign faculty’s dissatisfaction adds to the lure of Chinese recruitment push
China is reasserting itself at the forefront of intellectual endeavour while its regional neighbours vie to keep the pace. John Ross reports
Research benefits often unforeseeable but must be communicated
Research for the public good being subverted by geopolitical ‘zero-sum competition’, says former LSE professor
But experts ask how long country’s success can last in the face of rampant competition from Asia
Institutions that win performance-related funding will fall behind anyway, university group claims
University presses need to collaborate and think big in an uncertain marketplace, says UNSW executive
Evidence suggests citations boost from working with industry
Doubts over impact of Australian scheme after previous fee discount programme was scrapped
Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create
Gradings influenced more by sex and ethnicity than teachers’ experience
Australian university releases details of curriculum for philanthropically funded degree
Sir Chris Husbands visits Australia as it considers introducing performance-related funding system similar to UK’s teaching excellence framework
University presses should not produce popular books at the expense of academic ones, say scholars
Australian researchers say a lack of guidance material forces researchers to second-guess ethics committees
If popular books trump scholarly monographs, what’s the point of academic publishers? asks John Ross
