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
La Trobe moniker celebrates a genocidal past, staff and students say
Big business and states join universities in opposing proposed limits
Proposal an improvement on current ‘blunt tools’ that undermine policy and facilitate exploitation, says Australian Labor MP and former international education boss
Universities haemorrhage money as students face months-long waits
Slow easing of Covid border restrictions helped international education avoid purges elsewhere, figures suggest
Generative AI is ‘a bit like teenage snogging – everyone’s doing it although no one really knows how’
‘Outrageous impost’ to fund domestic education initiatives is ‘robbing Ranjit to pay for Richard’
Political and fiscal realities are driving changes in the treatment of a ‘long overlooked’ community
Proposed commission would probe ‘massive surge’ in antisemitic incidents and ‘capitulation to extremists’
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be treated little differently from their privileged cousins, critics say
Kiwi institutions committed to ‘academic audit as a concept’ but look to save costs
Union demands parliamentary inquiry as instances continue to emerge
As Australia mulls ‘hard’ caps on domestic as well as international students, expert warns of unintended consequences
Canberra quietly scrapped plans to join world’s biggest research collaboration scheme in mid-2023
Proposed body must have ‘mundane’ expertise and avoid being the ‘long grass of policy’, new group says
Accord panellists’ ‘preferred options’ also include ‘equity levy’ on high-fee courses and no change to international education
Crackdown proposed without any forethought about the broader consequences, Press Club hears
Government’s proposal will intensify the problem it is supposed to solve while ‘wreaking havoc’ on universities’ finances, universities say
Proposed visa caps, soaring rejection rates and ‘anti-China’ perceptions scaring off country’s most valuable student cohort
The science is ‘just physics’ and the human chemistry matters more, says academic behind a sustainable development programme that’s going global
If rich countries poach your nurses you should ‘build more nursing schools’, conference hears
Most initiatives are well-meaning but ‘short-term, scattered, uncoordinated and incoherent’
Universities might be in the ‘sweet spot to redefine the future’, but they still need to work with government and business, says leader
A fixation on publishing in ‘academic comic books’ is subverting the values permeating business schools, conference hears
