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
Paperwork pain eases, revenue pain rises as universities confront new year
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Cutting entitlements will be counter-productive unless countries address cultural barriers keeping international graduates from meaningful work
Educator and equity analyst discusses bilingualism, academia’s misguided values and the societal benefits of scientific uncertainty
Removal of personal and affiliation details means assessors judge the idea rather than the researcher’s track record
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Former political staffer and representative group head to take the helm at umbrella body
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Amid yawning teacher shortages and one-sided funding regime, colleges warn that their successful model of localised training faces collapse
Australia’s now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t approach reflects policy patterns in other leading education destinations
People ‘backing off’ from higher education should ‘have another look’, says departing Universities Australia boss
More miscarriages inevitable unless courts become ‘more science-sensitive’, learned academy warns
Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates over the past 12 months
Education exports and high student loan repayments help offset damage from inflation and interest rates, according to Australian mini-budget
Cost-of-living crisis has not spawned improvements in university food options, Australian analysis finds
Chancellors might only choose vice-chancellors once a decade, but they spend the next few decades agonising about it
Representative groups broadly welcome focus on quality and integrity, but proposed changes to migration points test will be pivotal
‘If the government wants data, here’s the data,’ says dean, as study finds Māori and Pasifika remain under-represented in medical enrolments
Despite record earnings, commencements and visa lodgements, analyst predicts ‘readjustment’
While concessions and newly flagged exemptions provide reassurance over Australia’s proposed defence trade control changes, ‘grey areas’ remain
Australia’s biggest university appoints from within after ‘rigorous and broad-scale’ executive search
Academy and fifth estate must team up, Nobel laureate says, as 3.2 billion people prepare to vote in a reality-free zone
All but a handful of universities now tarnished by short-changing scandal, according to academic union
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