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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Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests
Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit
Slump in applications to country’s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students
Vocational and higher education get equal billing, as Australian university groups unite in jobs-focused election spiel
Police, politicians, doctors, cleaners and school students share Southern Cross campus as an emergency base
Data useful ‘if considered in context’, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ‘dangerous’
Australian study probes the difficulties facing latter-year students – and the ‘balancing act’ required of their lecturers
Dispute over indigenous knowledge ‘not amenable to resolution’, investigation panel finds, as New Zealand society pledges ‘helpful and constructive’ dialogue
Proposal to ‘link performance and funding’ the latest in an interventionist trend
Veto powers not unique to the ARC, medical research funder says – although they are not exercised elsewhere
IRU’s pre-election manifesto for university sector also recommends adoption of the UK’s Haldane principle
Top Australian university sidelined from rich fellowship scheme over ‘unacceptable’ lack of diversity in honorary doctorates
Industrial relations umpire overturns finding that information implicitly identifies individual staff
‘Big-picture thinkers’ would set national priorities, sidestep electoral cycles and deal with ‘boundary issues’ involving indigenous knowledge
University’s internal debate about the pros and cons mirrors live discussions elsewhere
Storms, flash floods and emergency services effort force students back online
While most submissions support legislation to end ministerial veto rights, some urge middle ground approach
Invasion of Ukraine ‘threatens the peace, freedom and democracy on which freedom of inquiry and academic collaboration is based’
Returning numbers underwhelming so far as isolated state casts off its shackles
Universities brace as hot labour market beckons locals who kept them afloat through Covid
If just one in 20 supported technologies hits paydirt, new fund will pay for itself, says STEM lobby
Swinburne says former councillor and union rep was not targeted, but he says redundancy criteria were written for him
Scholars expressing ‘shock and horror’ call for ‘immediate stop’ to Putin’s ‘senseless’ invasion
Back-to-campus plans postponed as classes make way for crisis centres