Exiled USP chief, Dr Lal now free to enter Fiji, says Rabuka
By Josefa Babitu in Suva The greenlight has been given to University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, and Dr Padma Lal, to return to Fiji by Prime Minister Sitiveni...
View ArticleProfessor thrilled over USP return – Fiji to pay $90m university debt
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Exiled University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia says he is thrilled at the prospect of returning to Fiji. Speaking to The Fiji Times from Los...
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‘This is for you’– 24 Pasifika New Year’s honours recipients in NZ
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Jan Kohout, RNZ journalist Twenty four Pacific peoples have been recognised in the 2023 New Year’s honours. A former Premier of Niue, Young Vivian, leads the...
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Fiji plans to ‘restore confidence’ in USP partnership, says Professor Prasad
By Rakesh Kumar in Suva Fiji’s Minister of Finance and deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad says all coalition partners in the new government have agreed to a closer relationship with the...
View ArticleFrench Polynesia plans journalism study grants to combat disinformation
Pacific Media Watch President Édouard Fritch of French Polynesia says he wants to boost funds to study journalism in French Polynesia in a bid to help strengthen the media industry quality, reports RNZ...
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New Zealand doesn’t offer tenure to academics, but the AUT employment dispute...
ANALYSIS: By Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury Late last year, the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) initiated a process to eliminate 170 academic jobs to cut costs. The Employment...
View ArticleUSP’s academic chief welcomes $7m pledge from Fiji out of arrears
Asia Pacific Report The head of the University of the South Pacific has welcomed the return of payments by the new Fiji coalition government, reports ABC Pacific Beat. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka...
View ArticleUSP 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 release $10 million in grants owed as...
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Gallery: Massive volunteer effort in tackling Auckland’s floods
By Red Tsounga First came the devastating flash floods in Auckland on Friday night. Then came the huge effort to help families evacuate to community shelters. And finally the ongoing clean-up...
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Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up time for fun stuff
COMMENTARY: By Kayt Davies in Perth I wasn’t good at French in my final year of high school. My classmates had five years of language studies behind them. I had three. As a result of my woeful grip on...
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PNG’s Education Minister slams UPNG ‘discrimination’ against Filipino student
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby Higher Education Minister Don Polye has condemned a decision by the administration of the University of Papua New Guinea to treat a PNG-born and bred grade 12 school...
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‘I’m just a catalyst for the bigger change’, says exiled USP vice-chancellor...
By Geraldine Panapasa of Wansolwara in Suva The University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor and president, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, was given a rousing welcome at Nadi International Airport today...
View Article‘We were orphaned since you left,’ Rabuka says in apology to USP’s Pal
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva The University of the South Pacific is expected to receive the first instalment of the promised $10 million part payment of owed grants soon. Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni...
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Learn from Timor-Leste ‘freedom’, says former PNG media council head
The National in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s new media draft policy would put a stop to reporting news not regarded as “positive” for the country’s image, says former PNG Media Council director Bob...
View ArticlePNG police negotiators try to win freedom for hostage researchers
PNG Post-Courier An Australian-based anthropology professor and three Papua New Guinean women researchers are being held captive inside the jungles of the Southern Highlands after they were kidnapped...
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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 Amorangi, or...
View Article‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney A National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) report claims that “wage theft has shamefully become an endemic part of universities’ business models” while Australia’s...
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An important book exposing problems immigrants – especially Muslims – face in...
REVIEW: By Adam Brown How to be a Bad Muslim is a collection of 19 short essays by Mohamed Hassan, an award-winning poet and an international journalist. He was born in Cairo, but moved to Auckland at...
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Climate strikes: Thousands march in NZ to demand action from government
RNZ News Thousands of people turned up for climate strikes across Aotearoa New Zealand today — and briefly staged a sit-in at Christchurch City Council. School students and others around the country...
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Cyclones: Vanuatu children ‘need to see their friends’, educator warns
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific reporter Tens of thousands of ni-Vanuatu children could be experiencing “stress and trauma” after the double cyclones that tore through the island nation last week,...
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