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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.
Articles by John Ross
Minister flags ‘financial fine-tunings’ to ‘squeeze greater productivity out of existing funding’
Proposed definition could provide get-out-of-jail-free card for ‘rogue academics’, some claim
Australian senate order could put an end to deadline clashes plaguing research grant applicants
Respite increasingly unlikely as Australia moves into pandemic mode
No obvious solutions in sight as income support levels plummet
Parting shot the privilege of the established, as precariously employed academics choose less risky departures, says anthropologist
Universities Australia conference also hears jurist stress human side of crisis, urging government to establish a ‘special student support fund’
Situation will be reviewed again ‘towards the end of the week’, education minister to tell conference
Don’t overlook universities’ warnings or their contribution to disaster prevention and mitigation, representative body tells government
Australian study warns against jettisoning essays in favour of invigilated assessments
Exemptions and detours under consideration, as universities and students grapple with open-ended travel bans
Money is not the point, Australian institution insists, as it opens the door to a new higher education frontier
Legal scholar to return to UK to succeed Michael Arthur in January 2021
Universities did not prepare adequately for a ‘foreseeable’ downturn predicted to slash at least A$2.8 billion (£1.45 billion) from education exports, claims sociologist
Opponents see campaign to ‘diminish the regard for academic inquiry’ as political manoeuvring rather than real problem
While much harm has been done by epidemic, institutions could use crisis to sharpen strategies and practices in areas such as internationalisation and e-learning, experts say
Coronavirus response driven by ‘political objectives masquerading as public health decisions’, according to outspoken academic
Alienation of Chinese students and graduates risks encouraging a monoculture of the ‘male, pale and stale’, senate told
Danish-Australian paper finds researchers unconsciously adjust to accommodate assessment exercise
Other universities likely to rein in their costs as travel ban threatens their bottom line
Universities scramble to offer ‘targeted solutions’ for Chinese students stranded by coronavirus
Institutional, pedagogical and workload issues more problematic than technological impediments, experts say
The ecologist with more air miles than most on alternative pathways to the professoriate, Australia’s natural boom-bust cycles and whether there is hope for the platypus
‘We’re all in this together’, v-c insists, as universities scramble to teach 100,000 stranded students
