USP welcomes home Vice Chancellor with prayers, standing ovations…and soon, FJ$10million

The two-year exile of the University of the South Pacific’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia from the university’s Suva campus ended with a thanksgiving ceremony last night. Professor Ahluwalia told regional

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Pacific PhD candidates receive Norway scholarships

Ten PhD candidates from the Pacific have been named as recipients of the Norway Pacific Ocean Scholarship Programme (N-POC). This first cohort of the N-POC scholarship includes Peter Emberson (Fiji), Laura Williams

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USP Vice Chancellor Professor Ahluwalia back in Fiji

University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Vice Chancellor and President Professor Pal Ahluwalia is back in Fiji. Professor Ahluwalia was welcomed at the Nadi Airport this morning by students and staff from USP. He

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USP Cook Islands director welcomes Fiji funding

University of the South Pacific (USP) Cook Islands Director Dr Debi Futter-Puati is pleased to hear the newly elected Fiji Government will release funds to the institution. Dr Futter-Puati said the impact of the

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USP Emalus Campus to resolve internet problem

The Director of the University of the South Pacific (USP) Emalus Campus, Dr Andrew McKenzie, believes that a stable and effective contract with the Vanuatu government is the way forward to avoid the ongoing internet

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USP wins award at Robot Contest in New Delhi

Fijian students from the University of the South Pacific (USP) took home the Tokyo Electron Award at the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) 2022, held in New Delhi, India. The four students are in the School

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USP “students are hurting” says Pro Chancellor

As Pacific leaders meet in Suva to discuss deepening regionalism through the  2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent, USP, the region’s university continues to suffer the impacts of continued funding

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USP Council raises concerns over finance risks

The University of the South Pacific’s Council has raised concerns about the financial and operating risks arising out of Fiji’s withheld grant, compounded by the COVID-19 economic impacts. In a statement

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“Our ocean is not a nuclear dumpster” – USP students call for a nuclear free Pacific

Hundreds of students at the University of the South Pacific in Suva rallied to remember nuclear survivors around the region on 1 March, the anniversary of the US Bravo nuclear test on Bikini Atoll. Marching through

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USP will have ‘No Jab, No School’ policy

The University of the South Pacific (USP) has adopted a ‘No Jab, No School’ policy across the region for 2022. Manager of Public Relations and Communications under the Office of the Vice Chancellor and President of

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Opinion: Framing a “new Pacific consciousness”

By Kaliopate Tavola Outgoing USP Chancellor, H.E. President of Nauru Lionel Rouwen Aingimea, recently penned an editorial, which, having fulfilled his one-year stint as Chancellor and on the way out, can be regarded as

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Aingimea: USP ‘thriving’, won’t be drawn on Fiji parliamentary criticism

*This news item was updated at 5:20pm (Fiji time) Nauru’s President, Lionel Aingimea says the University of the South Pacific is thriving, despite Fiji not providing grant funding. When Islands Business asked

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