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Asia Pacific Editor

The Australian is a publishing company which located in Australia.

John Ross is Asia Pacific editor with Times Higher Education. Until February 2018 he was higher education and science journalist with The Australian newspaper. He reports across the range of tertiary education issues in the Asia Pacific region. He has twice been named Australian higher education journalist of the year and has won journalism awards from the National Press Club, Universities Australia, the International Education Association of Australia, the Migration Institute of Australia and the Australian Council of Deans of Education. He joined The Australian in mid-2010 after working for several years with Campus Review. Prior to that he spent many years as a media officer with NSW government agencies including the Department of Education and Training, TAFE NSW, the Adult Migrant English Service and the National Parks and Wildlife Service. He has also freelanced for publications including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Good Weekend, and as a casual scriptwriter for educational and promotional videos and TV. He has also worked at various times as a musician, English teacher, kitchenhand, landscape labourer and sugar cane chipper. He drinks too much coffee, swims every day and can play two harmonicas at once.