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
Personal and pragmatic factors often keep Chinese academics in the West
Vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner confirms university is considering opening outpost following signing of free trade agreement
Institutions’ philanthropy heads lift their sights as campaigns exceed expectations
Australian universities yet to sign up to guidelines, representative body says
Deal follows long-awaited decree allowing foreign university campuses
ARC insists allegations of political subversion are ‘baseless’
Two dozen agreements signed in whirlwind tour Down Under
John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between Australia and its neighbours in the East
Universities ‘not well served’ by federal government’s approach to BRI, Universities Australia conference hears
Continued funding squeeze appears inevitable as major parties’ policies trickle out at UA conference
Labor has made an ‘unequivocal commitment’ to restore uncapped funding, vice-chancellors say
‘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
