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
International student flows kept on drip feed as politics, fear and logistics trump large-scale influxes
Australian study suggests academics¡¯ recruitment habits exacerbate their workload problems
While Greg Craven warns competition for business and law students could bankrupt some universities, colleagues disagree
Reassessing operations through an institutional mission lens will prove more palatable than business-driven decisions, says ex-Adelaide boss
Institutions with overseas links seen to be acting ¡®on behalf of¡¯ foreign interests
Student demographics will guide whether universities retain or discard large-scale lectures, administrator says
Agricultural agreements between Australian universities and government agencies could overhaul farm profitability
Defence controls, research fields and New Colombo Plan in the frame, as bureaucracies flag foreign interference risks
Sector leaders question viability even when people can again gather in big crowds, with Australians leading the sceptics
Perfunctory guidelines tell Australian universities little they did not already know, but herald welcome dialogue
New minister¡¯s old work on online education could be revived to encourage tertiary sector integration, experts say
Queensland institution spies ¡®opportunities¡¯ beyond Java
Epigeneticist on searching for life¡¯s secrets, distinguishing stem cell science from snake oil and pondering the perfect size for a university
Overruling of funding recommendations, apparently over security concerns, divulged following minister¡¯s departure
Australian incident could reflect exasperation at ¡®spike¡¯ in misconduct detections
Critics say draft benchmarks for assessment of scholarly activity are overprescriptive, exclusionary and onerous
MP brings ¡®a good understanding¡¯ of international education and a chequered record on refugees and staff relations
Long-standing cost pressures exacerbated by the pandemic swamping Canberra¡¯s efforts to mould university efforts to economic needs
Expert says favourable treatment of Catholic university is ¡°logical¡±, but criticises optics of handout to another Catholic institution
Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators who have shaped the debate in the past 12 months
Commercial aid steers research agenda away from public health impacts, Australian study suggests
Murdoch gives the language another year and backs away from proposal to sideline some academics from research
Virus management earns no brownie points for Antipodean education, with UK ranked higher even on safety
Australian trials cancelled over interference with HIV tests
