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
Graduates now keenly aware of loan scheme rules and how to avoid debt blowouts, figures suggest
Author says country should acknowledge forces to suppress academic expression, irrespective of their ideological roots
Process for limiting international student recruitment ‘like a game of musical chairs’, Senate committee hears
Mandating longer study abroad stints will sideline the students who benefit most and cannot manage independent travel, practitioners warn
Serving minister and former prime ministerial aspirant to lead capital city university
Regional institutions hope to benefit as they are handed quotas higher than current numbers at expense of rich Group of Eight universities. But will effect of the policy merely put students off Australia altogether?
Pay negotiations ‘proceeding well’, administrators insist, amid argy-bargy on both sides of the Tasman
Latest figures showing that growth has fallen to lowest level in decades should be a ‘wake-up call’ for government, says Universities Australia
Increased American targeting of foreign enrolments expected to prompt policy response and reduce competitor countries’ access to ‘low-risk’ students
Institution that dispensed the highest vice-chancellor remuneration in sector’s history looking at course and job cuts
Universities may be discouraged from taking on displaced students for fear of them counting towards their quota, policy expert warns
Top-tier institutions accused of not engaging with concerns about scale of overseas cohorts
Earthquake engineer on feedback loops in research and higher education reform
But flaws in controversial bill are already creating problems, according to top legal scholar and university leader
Australian scholars say improving response times make website ‘an appealing tool’ for cheating, but findings are disputed
Metric used to inform new policy adds to confusion for top-ranked institutions while other vice-chancellors welcome ‘certainty’ provided by their allocations
Newly announced quota ‘like a levy by stealth’, analyst says, as universities evaluate the impact at institutional level
If the choice is between impact factor and maintaining the content’s integrity, there is little contest
No currently enrolled students will be disadvantaged, bureaucrat insists, despite quarrels over data and assessment that bill ‘is more suited to national security legislation’
With a six-month sunset and short-term contracts off the table, administrators can no longer rely on insecure teachers for certainty
Firm whose lawyer helped initiate ACU saga handed job of finding leakers
Security expert questions the approach, amid reports of Australia’s first ‘nationality ban’
Canberra yet to clarify future of ‘ministerial direction 107’ despite touting enrolment caps as a replacement
Opacity is a feature of a university sector that has ‘lost its way’, according to Australia’s newest sector leader
