Tag: University of the South Pacific
USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji
By Joe Yaya of Islands Business
Controversial University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor and president Professor Pal Ahluwalia will return to be based at...
PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand's only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year --...
USP faces a ‘gathering storm’ over leadership and a looming strike
Asia Pacific Report
The University of the South Pacific -- one of only two regional universities in the world -- is facing a "gathering storm"...
Time to get in quick for the fast looming deadline for...
Asia Pacific Report
Time is running out for media people and academics wanting to tell their innovative story or present research at the 2024 Pacific...
A tribute to a Pacific visionary – remembering Epeli Hau’ofa
By Aisha Azeemah in Suva
With the lights on one of his sneakers blinking as he ran through the gallery, a little boy looked up...
USP strike: Staff offer management ‘one more chance to come to...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
University of the South Pacific staff unions are giving management "one more chance to come to the table" before...
USP staff vote in favour of strike action over ‘just and...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
A secret ballot by members of the Association of University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) and USP Staff...
USP to host ‘critical issues’ Pacific media conference to shape future
By Monika Singh
The University of the South Pacific will host a major Pacific international media conference in July to address critical issues in the...
Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team
Wansolwara News
The University of the South Pacific journalism programme is hosting a cohort student journalists from Australia's Queensland University of Technology this week.
Led by...
World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact
By Kalinga Seneviratne
The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Tuvalu Campus, located in the capital Funafuti, is perhaps the smallest university in the world,...
USP prepares Pacific communities to respond to climate change
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
Right across the South Pacific region, communities are no longer living on idyllic islands -- they are facing serious problems...
Ahluwalia reappointed as USP’s VC in spite of protests, strike threat
By Vijay Narayan in Suva
The University of the South Pacific Council has reappointed Professor Pal Ahluwalia as vice-chancellor and president amid two days of...
USP union warns of industrial action if fair pay is not...
By Iliana Biutu in Suva
University of the South Pacific Union (USPU) president Reuben Colata says industrial action will be the next step if USP...
‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair...
RNZ Pacific
University of the South Pacific (USP) staff gathered outside the Japan-Pacific ICT Centre today to protest over better pay and conditions as well...
PNG’s Masiu warns USP journalism students to defend free press
By Monika Singh in Suva
Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of any vibrant democracy and society's collective responsibility to safeguard and protect it,...
USP staff unhappy with VC, but he thanks them for ‘engagement’
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
University of the South Pacific staff who once stood by vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia are now up in arms about...
Ex-Fiji PM Bainimarama, suspended police chief found not guilty
RNZ Pacific
A Suva court has acquitted the former Fijian prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and the suspended police chief Sitiveni Qiliho.
Bainimarama was facing charges of...
Auckland University to award Tongan academic, author ‘Epeli Hau’ofa honorary doctorate
By Philip Cass
The University of Auckland is to bestow a posthumous honorary doctorate on the late Tongan academic, author and sociologist Professor ‘Epeli Hau’ofa.
Hau’ofa...
China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
While Japan’s discharge of nuclear waste waters into the Pacific from its Fukushima nuclear plant has been drawing flak across...
Shailendra Singh: How media can help unravel Fiji’s social cohesion puzzle
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh in Suva
Conflict and insufficient social cohesion are the biggest challenges in Fiji, and all and any efforts to mitigate and...
USAID launches ‘reinvigorated’ Pacific mission to help sustainability goals
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
The United States government’s overseas development aid arm US Agency for International Development (USAID) opened two new offices in Papua...
Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
The media sector in the Pacific should be supported with an enabling environment to...