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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
International education lobby group warns against course and policy redesign based around local employability of foreign graduates
Decline set to accelerate, as government puts block on over-enrolments
Registration requirements and compact negotiations would be reformed to funnel universities into ‘focus areas’, under panel’s draft proposals
Expat Ian Findlay says his fourth retirement will be his last. Before that, his task is to ‘transform’ the breeding ground of Papuan prime ministers
Senate committee recommends major transparency and accountability changes to Australian universities’ governing bodies
University leaders rule out forced redundancies as proposed UTS cuts claim the spotlight
Entry scores for overseas students increasingly disparate, as immigration authorities approve more tests
Institutional finances warrant their own review, accounting expert says, amid contested claims about the necessity for redundancies
Canterbury student association president says representative body’s non-partisan stance has put it ‘ahead of the game’
Political campaign against ‘damaging’ v-c highlights tension between obligations to constituents and respect for institutional autonomy
Shadow minister promises bipartisanship but ‘no blank cheque’, with commission’s funding activities set for particular scrutiny
Association would have ‘a multiplier effect on research resources and scientific effort’, advocates say
Plunging international student retention rates are exacerbating the financial pain for Australian universities
A ‘disconnect’ between aspirational rhetoric and the realities of ‘live’ admissions risks undermining Australia’s inclusion goals
Foreign arrangements scheme an example of the regulatory ‘thicket’ smothering universities’ core business, v-cs tell governance inquiry
Australian employer association says ‘system complexity’, not governance or deliberate dishonesty, is ‘root cause’ of widespread underpayments
No correct solution to the challenge of assessment in the age of generative AI, and academics must be given ‘permission’ to tailor their approaches, Australian researchers say
Exercise ‘triggered a lot of work that’s still got to be completed’ but succeeded in being ‘provocative’, according to country’s former chief science adviser
Vice-chancellor feels ‘pulled in different directions’ as health concerns force pause in job cuts plans he says are needed to break even
Country will lack the expertise to achieve next-generation priorities if funding left at mercy of undergraduate enrolments, Academy of Science analysis finds
Just being there is the best many can hope for, says disabled students’ advocate
Social licence ‘more fragile than people realise’ in a world where populism rules, science diplomat warns
Ambitious review with modest government pickup ‘was not an exercise in kicking the can down the road’
Construction on A$2bn Fishermans Bend site paused for at least five years, amid revenue concerns and systemic delays
