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
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
Metric used to inform new policy adds to confusion for top-ranked institutions while other vice-chancellors welcome ‘certainty’ provided by their allocations
Australian scholars say improving response times make website ‘an appealing tool’ for cheating, but findings are disputed
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’
Firm whose lawyer helped initiate ACU saga handed job of finding leakers
With a six-month sunset and short-term contracts off the table, administrators can no longer rely on insecure teachers for certainty
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
After waiting years for their visas, Australia-bound PhD candidates find that their university places have evaporated
‘We all fare better if we work together,’ says Washington lobbyist, as US turns a corner in its approach to foreign students
Vice-chancellor says it is ‘fine’ for international students to make up nearly half of Melbourne’s enrolments
University lobby demands revocation of ‘ministerial direction 107’, after education minister insists student quotas will be a ‘better mechanism’
Short-stay students should be exempted from both quotas and fee hike, says representative body
City dwellers appreciate international students’ economic contribution but think they add to housing unaffordability
Liberals ‘reserve position’ on international student bill, as Australian government pledges to release ‘indicative’ caps
As they brace for big policy shifts, inflation and flat domestic demand have left Australian universities more vulnerable than before Covid
