Tag: Pacific studies
Canterbury appoints Ratuva as first Te Amorangi in Pacific leadership team
Asia Pacific Report
Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva has added yet another first to his long list of accomplishments, becoming the University of Canterbury’s first Te...
Future of Fiji’s democracy at stake over coalition, warns Ratuva
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
New Zealand-based Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva says that if the coalition government is strong, resilient and lasts, “this will...
Ardern’s apology to Pacific peoples just the beginning – we will...
COMMENT: By Melani Anae
When the Polynesian Panthers (PPP) activist group began calling for an apology for the Dawn Raids two years ago, we went...
‘Pacific studies’ proposed to be taught in NZ schools in NCEA...
By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller, RNZ Pacific journalist
"Pacific Studies" has been included in a raft of new proposed NCEA achievement standard subjects in New Zealand, now...
Next question is role of police and ‘social licence’ in Samoan...
RNZ Pacific
The next step in the Samoan crisis is to see where the police land and to get a sense of who is going...
Pioneering Samoan academic wins key social sciences role at UNESCO
By RNZ Pacific
A leading Samoan academic from Auckland University of Technology has been appointed to a key role at New Zealand's branch of United...