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
It may be a ‘hard case to make’, but admitting more refugee students is in low-income countries’ interests, conference hears
As climate catastrophes gain steam, early warnings offer the ‘most effective’ safety shield, modellers say
Caps being pursued ‘at universities’ request’ and will mirror treatment of domestic students, education minister says
In rerun of US Congress hearing, Australian university executives reprimanded over both insensitivity to antisemitism and ‘complicity’ in Gaza slaughter
Course cuts will ‘revitalise’ language offerings, make students more employable and ‘address global challenges’, university claims
International student caps will endanger research funding just as a leisurely R&D review considers how to fix it, Senate committee hears
Compulsory national guidelines for Australian university executive salaries will not necessarily reduce them
Economic carnage looms as Australian political parties adopt unity ticket in treating overseas learners as cannon fodder
Postdocs risk being ruled ineligible after biding their time to optimise prospects of success
V-c’s offer to meet with encampment to review defence and security research called both an ‘empty deal’ and a ‘capitulation’
First budget of new governing coalition seen as ‘neutral’ for universities as small increases in funding set to be offset by inflation
Universities are not ‘speaker’s corner’ and governments should not impose ‘diktats about what we do on campus’, New Zealand forum hears
Academic exploration of leading university’s traditions uncovers dispossession, eugenics and grave robbing
Lower work rights cut-off would have excluded most doctoral graduates, critics warned
Few remaining obstacles for one of the biggest university amalgamations in history
‘No easy answers’ in what has become ‘a conflict about the conflict’
Universities face a delicate balancing act between ‘mob veto’ and safety obligations, says free speech advocate
‘Good data means better policy’, educationalists stress
Emotions and rhetoric run high, but student campers are packing up
While offering no assurances over her party’s stance on forthcoming legislation, shadow education minister is a ‘big fan’ of preparatory courses
Canberra should not stifle university revenue while unrolling expensive equity reforms, says implementation committee member
Ahead of proposed enrolment caps, foreign earnings fail to prevent a slide further into the red
Figures indicate limited scope for growth in international enrolments, as administrators strive to balance the books
No projects are funded because nobody has the expertise to appraise them, letter claims
