Tag: Pacific universities
Griffin clarifies UPNG’s stance over higher education loan programme
By Jina Amba in Port Moresby
The University of PNG has clarified that Papua New Guinea's higher education loan programme (Help) is administered by a...
USP’s academic leader deported for getting close to Fiji’s dark secret
By Michael Field
When the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, was hauled out of his Suva, Fiji, home this week and...
USP staff, students condemn Fiji ‘Gestapo’ tactics, demand Ahluwalia’s return
By Wansolwara staff
Staff, students and alumni of the University of the South Pacific have called on the Fiji government to immediately reinstate the work...
Bid to oust USP’s pro-chancellor thwarted by Fiji ‘stalling’
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva
Attempts to remove the University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor and one of its council’s committee chairperson - both of...
USP Council terminates investigation into academic chief
By Lena Reece in Suva
The University of the South Pacific Council has terminated the investigation into allegations of material misconduct against USP vice-chancellor and...
USP staff happy with Ahluwalia’s return but seek BDO report action
By Litia Cava in Suva
University of the South Pacific staff say they are happy with the USP Council’s decision to reinstate Professor Pal Ahluwalia...
Pal Ahluwalia: ‘My vision is to make USP one of the...
Who is Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the man at the centre of the long-running controversy at the University of the South Pacific? On Tuesday last...
Pacific leadership in spotlight as pressure rises over USP impasse
By Christine Rovoi of RNZ Pacific
A former vice-chancellor of Papua New Guinea's University of Technology says politics has no place in university governance.
Professor Albert...
Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: The desecration of Oceania’s sacred place of learning
COMMENTARY: By Tarcisius Kabutaulaka in Honolulu
The current leadership crisis at the University of the South Pacific is worrying and must be sorted out. That...
Suspension of USP’s academic head ‘legal’ claims pro-chancellor
By Wansolwara staff
The decision to suspend the academic chief of the University of the South Pacific pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations...
Forum’s chief Meg Taylor backs Nauru call for special meeting on...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, is the latest figure to...
Secret report reveals widespread salary and allowance rorts at USP
By Michael Field in Islands Business
Senior academics and staff at the University of the South Pacific in Suva are accused in a special audit...
Fiji suspension move against USP chief ‘nonsense’, says Samoan deputy PM
By Soli Wilson in Apia
Trouble continues to brew at the University of the South Pacific with the suspension of the vice-chancellor and President, Professor...
Journalist reports on USP payments scandal as campus backs reform VC
Pacific Media Watch
After three days of protests by hundreds of students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific over the treatment...
Nauru president accuses Fiji group of ‘hijacking’ USP in vendetta
Pacific Media Watch
Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has accused a "small group" of Fiji officials of "hijacking" the 12-country regional University of the South Pacific...
USP staff want Fiji’s pro-chancellor Thompson to step aside in abuse...
By Peni Komaisavai in Suva
Staff of the University of the South Pacific at the university’s main Laucala campus in Suva have called for pro-chancellor...
Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues profiled in new publication
By Michael Andrew
Six years of diverse Pacific research by Auckland University of Technology staff and students has been profiled in a new publication.
Presented by...
NZ seeks ‘explanations’ over USP mismanagement allegations
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters says his government is "asking for explanations" about alleged mismanagement at the regional University of the...