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
Partial elimination of tuition fees could prove self-defeating by undermining the private universities that educate more than half of the country¡¯s students
Paperwork pain eases, revenue pain rises as universities confront new year
Autonomy, tertiary sector integration and sustainable research funding are crucial to sector¡¯s future, Brian Schmidt says, as he relinquishes leadership role
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
Canberra¡¯s attempt to reduce backlog of ¡®permanently temporary¡¯ graduates hamstrung by trade agreement
Former political staffer and representative group head to take the helm at umbrella body
¡®Fantasy rhetoric¡¯ that university leads to the ¡®good life¡¯ leaves students feeling ¡®betrayed¡¯, Australian study finds
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 M¨¡ori 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
