Tag: USP Council
Claims of ‘issues, concerns and breaches’ emerge at USP
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
A leaked document authored by a recently recruited senior University of the South Pacific...
USP student body welcomes Fiji’s commitment to settle grant dues
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva
Students at the Fiji-based regional University of the South Pacific have welcomed the announcement by the new coalition government to...
Regional USP staff, students call for vote against FijiFirst over $85m...
GRUBSHEET: By Graham Davis
With barely four weeks to go to the election, students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific have...
Fiji’s Thompson and Khan voted out of USP top jobs after...
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva
A major development out of the besieged University of the South Pacific has meant that two main characters in a...
Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
Nauru president Lionel Aingimea has accused Fiji of being "divisive" over its refusal to pay its share of funding for...
Nauru president praises USP for its global top 10% university ranking
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
President Lionel Aingimea of Nauru has praised the University of the South Pacific for becoming ranked among the world's top 10...
USP staff unions reject Fiji AG’s claims, ‘set record straight’
By Luke Rawalai in Suva
Both University of the South Pacific staff unions have attacked claims made in Parliament last week by Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum...
Corruption accused USP staff ‘apply for state jobs’, says Fiji opposition
By Felix Chaudhary and Luke Rawalai in Suva
Some people who were accused of corrupt practices at the University of the South Pacific have applied...
Fiji funding threat over Pacific-wide university draws ire in New Zealand
RNZ Pacific
The New Zealand government says it remains concerned by the ongoing management and governance challenges at the Fiji-based regional University of the South...
Nauru president defends Samoa contract decision for USP chief
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has rejected a Fiji minister's claim that the decision of the University of the South Pacific to...
USP staff and students hit back at Sayed-Khaiyum’s ‘illegal’ claim
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The University of the South Pacific staff and student unions have condemned Fiji Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's claim that a new USP...
Fiji-deported USP vice-chancellor Ahluwalia gets new contract
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva
The governing body of the University of the South Pacific has put a stop to a long and bitter campaign...
Future of USP vice-chancellor in limbo but Samoa keen to be...
By Soli Wilson of the Samoa Observer
The deported vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific has told the Samoa Observer that his future...
Ahluwalia still USP’s vice-chancellor, says Aingimea
RNZ Pacific
Deported Canadian academic Professor Pal Ahluwalia is still vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South Pacific, says chancellor Lionel Aingimea.
Professor Ahluwalia...
How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for...
USP saga – small leak hints at big problems with the...
By Michael Field
As the fate of the University of the South Pacific remains on edge, a small leak of a personal file hints at...
USP chancellor condemns Fiji’s treatment of Pal – now in Nauru
By Litia Cava in Suva
Never again should a University of the South Pacific staff member be treated in the manner vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia...
Tuisawau claims Fiji pro-chancellor blocked USP audit probe
By Luke Rawalai in Suva
Opposition parliamentarian Ro Filipe Tuisawau claims University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor Winston Thompson and audit and risk committee deputy...
The future of USP is at stake – do Australia and...
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva
The whistleblowing vice-chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has described the illegal...
Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional...
REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne
The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific...
Samoa goes public with bid for USP to move headquarters from...
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist
Samoa's prime minister has gone public with his desire to "rehouse" the University of the South Pacific (USP) in...
Deportation a ‘distraction’ from USP’s boom performance, says Ahluwalia
By RNZ Pacific
The deported vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific says booming student enrolments are a vote of confidence in the regional...