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
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Times Higher Education journalists name the change-makers at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates over the past 12 months
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Region’s educational strengths must be brought to bear against key challenges such as climate change, forum hears
Emerging institutions’ aspirations snubbed as old-guard administrators focus on a vanishing bottom line
Senate victory a win for government following defeat of caps
Keeping costs down ‘not an objective’ for research-addicted sector, says accountancy professor
Questions cause alarm but the panel ‘wouldn’t be doing its job’ if it avoided them, commentators say
Non-metropolitan institutions should be treated differently from their city cousins if overseas admissions are limited, says northern Australian MP
‘Consultancy addiction’ contributes to boom-bust hiring practices in a sector where executives routinely ‘out-earn the premier’
Prolonged integrity problems, ongoing visa chaos, harsher caps to come: the post-caps prospects for Australian international education
Country could accommodate more overseas learners, according to poll of locals’ attitudes
Crossbench party wants debt reduction legislated straight away, while opposition dismisses measure as an elitist ‘election bribe’
Visa processing chaos set to continue amid opposition parties’ rejection of proposal to limit international student numbers
Institutions start putting recruitment on hold amid uncertainty about whether new limits will come into force in January
Promote teamwork to improve gender equity, Australian analysis suggests
