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
Rules designed for adversaries do not help against friends, expert warns, as US grills Australian researchers on DEI, ‘environmental justice’, ‘gender ideology’ and China links
Teaching and nursing enrolments surge as students seek ‘safer’ career paths in an uncertain and expensive world
Reforms to boost opportunities for those just starting out could have the opposite effect, observers warn
Students spiked their visa paperwork to bolster their chances next time around, new data suggests
Teqsa’s request for extra clout to tackle ‘systemic’ governance failures deemed too much by some, too little and late by others
Australian east coast campuses emerge from lockdown after wayward storm pulled its punches
Recording gender identity but not sex perpetuates historical exclusion of women from research, paper argues
The marine biologist and new University of Melbourne vice-chancellor is intent on using insights from beneath the waves to keep her institution afloat through the brewing storms
Communing with long-term residents is vital to overseas learners’ well-being but can leave them feeling more isolated than ever
Experts concede shortcomings in the oversight of universities but question whether Teqsa is best placed to resolve them
Australian department ‘not aware’ of computer ‘bug’ that applicants blame for torpedoing their PhD dreams
VET needs a boost, researcher argues, amid counter-claims that higher education is on the back foot
Institution is ‘balancing the right to protest with the rights of others to not be adversely affected’, says new vice-chancellor
While hundreds of academics decry education minister’s intervention, supporters say he acted in researchers’ interests
Statement endorsed by 39 Australian institutions described as both being ‘not robust enough’ and a ‘betrayal’ of staff and students
Disagreements over the extent to which Catholic teaching should influence academic practice have caused ructions at the Australian Catholic University. But where exactly should the line between academic freedom and spiritual doctrine be drawn in a church-owned university? John Ross reports
Advocate more judiciously, sector representatives urged, as they demand more money to ‘do our job for the country’
Coalition has departed from usual practice, outlining a comprehensive suite of changes if it regains government
Universities must change their language to survive assault on DEI, says former Trump chief of staff
If doors to opportunity close, ‘it can become a potent political issue very quickly’
Conference also hears that proposed streamline of ARC grant schemes will give early career researchers a ‘leg-up’
Universities can win a rational argument but lose an emotional war, conference hears
‘Real issue’ is whether people think universities give value, says new university leader who accepted lower salary
Students take years to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars they would have been paid if training was salaried, New Zealand study finds
