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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific There are signs Fiji’s deportation of the University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor was engineered to avoid his contract being given better security. Professor Pal Ahluwalia told RNZ Dateline Pacific that on Wednesday last week the USP chancellor, Nauru President Lionel Aingimea, had alerted the university’s governing body, the USP Council, ... <a title="Deportation of USP academic head hinted at in Fiji media veiled threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/deportation-of-usp-academic-head-hinted-at-in-fiji-media-veiled-threat/" aria-label="Read more about Deportation of USP academic head hinted at in Fiji media veiled threat">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific The Speaker of Fiji’s Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau ruled that an oral question from National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad, a former USP economics academic, and an adjournment ... <a title="Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/fiji-speaker-disallows-debate-on-usps-ahluwalia-deportation/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2021
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva Documents tabled at last week’s special council meeting of the University of the South Pacific suggest that plans to amend the contract of the university’s vice-chancellor and president, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, prompted his forced deportation and that of his wife by Fiji government authorities on Thursday. Nauru President Lionel Aingimea, ... <a title="Fiji bought time to deport USP vice-chancellor and his wife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/08/fiji-bought-time-to-deport-usp-vice-chancellor-and-his-wife/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji bought time to deport USP vice-chancellor and his wife">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2021
OPEN LETTER: By USP staff, alumni and students Vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia has only been at the University of the South Pacific (USP) for three years – and each year, Fiji has attempted to “coup” him. The first was in August 2019, second in June 2020 and now February 2021. First, through a 16-page paper ... <a title="USP open letter: How Fiji infiltrated a campus and kidnapped a vice-chancellor in ‘Gestapo-style coup’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/08/usp-open-letter-how-fiji-infiltrated-a-campus-and-kidnapped-a-vice-chancellor-in-gestapo-style-coup/" aria-label="Read more about USP open letter: How Fiji infiltrated a campus and kidnapped a vice-chancellor in ‘Gestapo-style coup’">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2021
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 deported, it had nothing to do with his views on education or tertiary management. With his wife and nursing lecturer Sandy Price they were driven across curfew-locked down Fiji to ... <a title="USP’s academic leader deported for getting close to Fiji’s dark secret" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/07/usps-academic-leader-deported-for-getting-close-to-fijis-dark-secret/" aria-label="Read more about USP’s academic leader deported for getting close to Fiji’s dark secret">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2021
By PACNEWS/ABC The deported head of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, says his expulsion from Fiji is “a classic case of beating the whistleblower up,” and he has vowed to continue in the role from Nauru. In an interview with ABC Pacific Beat from Australia, Professor Pal Ahluwalia has detailed his ... <a title="Case of ‘beating up the whistleblower,’ says deported USP chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/05/case-of-beating-up-the-whistleblower-says-deported-usp-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Case of ‘beating up the whistleblower,’ says deported USP chief">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2021
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 permit for vice-chancellor and president Professor Pal Ahluwalia, who was deported today with his wife, Sandra Price. The USP community also called on the government to issue a formal apology ... <a title="USP staff, students condemn Fiji ‘Gestapo’ tactics, demand Ahluwalia’s return" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/04/usp-staff-students-condemn-fiji-gestapo-tactics-demand-ahluwalias-return/" aria-label="Read more about USP staff, students condemn Fiji ‘Gestapo’ tactics, demand Ahluwalia’s return">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Politicians, educators and civil society advocates around the region today condemned the “barbaric” and “shameful” detention and deportation of the regional University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife. Reformist Professor Ahluwalia, a Canadian, and his wife, Sandra, were detained by Fiji authorities at their Suva home ... <a title="Politicians, educators, advocates blast Fiji’s ‘barbaric’ expulsion of USP head" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/04/politicians-educators-advocates-blast-fijis-barbaric-expulsion-of-usp-head/" aria-label="Read more about Politicians, educators, advocates blast Fiji’s ‘barbaric’ expulsion of USP head">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
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 president Professor Pal Ahluwalia. A media release from the university stated the council had considered the decision by the special executive committee, viewed all the evidence against the vice-chancellor, and ... <a title="USP Council terminates investigation into academic chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/usp-council-terminates-investigation-into-academic-chief/" aria-label="Read more about USP Council terminates investigation into academic chief">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2020
By Wansolwara staff Pacific leaders are echoing strong calls for USP Council members to work together to resolve the ongoing challenges currently faced by the region’s premier educational institution. The call by Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano yesterday comes in the wake of mounting pressure from staff, students and stakeholders for good governance to prevail ... <a title="Pacific leaders call for for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/pacific-leaders-call-for-for-common-sense-to-prevail-in-usp-impasse/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders call for for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Cook Islands campus backs University of the South Pacific’s attempts to clean out alleged corruption and mismanagement at its Laucala headquarters campus in Suva, Fiji. University of the South Pacific Cook Islands campus staff and students are backing the university’s suspended vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Campus director Dr Debi Futter-Puati said she was pleased there ... <a title="USP Cook Islands backs ‘clean out’ bid in Fiji, avoids student disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/usp-cook-islands-backs-clean-out-bid-in-fiji-avoids-student-disruption/" aria-label="Read more about USP Cook Islands backs ‘clean out’ bid in Fiji, avoids student disruption">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2020
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 support Nauru’s call to convene a special meeting of the University of the South Pacific Council in the long-running leadership saga. In a letter to incoming chancellor of the USP, ... <a title="Forum’s chief Meg Taylor backs Nauru call for urgent meeting on USP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/forums-chief-meg-taylor-backs-nauru-call-for-urgent-meeting-on-usp/" aria-label="Read more about Forum’s chief Meg Taylor backs Nauru call for urgent meeting on USP">Read more</a>
