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April 6, 2024
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 — and it will mark the occasion at the Pacific Media International Conference in Fiji in July. Founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, PJR also published for ... <a title="PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/pjr-to-celebrate-30-years-of-journalism-publishing-at-pacific-media-2024/" aria-label="Read more about PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The University of the South Pacific — one of only two regional universities in world — is facing a “gathering storm” over leadership, a management crisis and a looming strike, reports Islands Business. In the six-page cover story in the latest edition of the regional news magazine this week, IB reports that ... <a title="USP faces a ‘gathering storm’ over leadership and a looming strike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/30/usp-faces-a-gathering-storm-over-leadership-and-a-looming-strike/" aria-label="Read more about USP faces a ‘gathering storm’ over leadership and a looming strike">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism and “issues of power lie at the heart of this”, new research has revealed. The study, published in Journalism Practice by researchers from the University of Vienna and the University ... <a title="Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/sexual-harassment-of-fijis-women-journalists-concerningly-widespread/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
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 Professor Angela Romano, the 12 students are covering news assignments in Fiji as part of their working trip. The visitors were given a briefing by USP journalism teaching staff ... <a title="Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/australian-student-journos-explore-fiji-media-landscape-with-usp-team/" aria-label="Read more about Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
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, but it offers a distinctive service. The nation of Tuvalu comprises nine small atoll islands which have a combined population of just 11,400. The Tuvalu Campus itself is restricted to ... <a title="World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/worlds-smallest-university-but-tuvalu-campus-has-big-local-impact/" aria-label="Read more about World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Tertiary education is in crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand. Vocational education, the domain of the Polytechnic ‘Institutes of Technology’; and Science and Humanities’ education, the traditional domain of the Universities. 2023 was an election year, yet tertiary education did not feature in the election campaign, despite these manifest crises. The Labour ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Te Pūkenga, Universities, and Unitec" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/14/keith-rankin-analysis-te-pukenga-universities-and-unitec/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Te Pūkenga, Universities, and Unitec">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
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 as calling for the removal of the regional institution’s vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia. The university’s main decision making body, the USP Council, is meeting at the Laucala campus this week. ... <a title="‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair pay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/all-talk-and-no-action-say-usp-protesters-calling-for-fair-pay/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair pay">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
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 his role in a decision by pro-chancellor Dr Hilda Heine to disallow a staff paper to be placed on the agenda of the 96th USP Council meeting being held today. A ... <a title="USP staff unhappy with VC, but he thanks them for ‘engagement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/usp-staff-unhappy-with-vc-but-he-thanks-them-for-engagement/" aria-label="Read more about USP staff unhappy with VC, but he thanks them for ‘engagement’">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2023
A Charles Sturt University journalism academic says the evolving communication course at his institution in Australia continues to feed the ranks of the irrepressible “Mitchell Mafia’”. Jock Cheetham, senior lecturer in news and media in the Charles Sturt School of Information and Communication Studies in Bathurst, said recent “news” of the demise of the journalism ... <a title="Demise of CSU news journalism course was ‘greatly exaggerated’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/27/demise-of-csu-news-journalism-course-was-greatly-exaggerated/" aria-label="Read more about Demise of CSU news journalism course was ‘greatly exaggerated’">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2023
A recent webinar hosted by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) brought together minds from across the region to delve into the intricate issues of the digital economy and data value. The webinar’s focus was clear — shed light on who was shaping the rules of the digital landscape and how these rules were taking ... <a title="Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/26/bid-to-protect-pacific-indigenous-knowledge-in-the-global-digital-space/" aria-label="Read more about Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2023
PNG Post-Courier The University of Papua New Guinea’s vice-chancellor, Professor Frank Griffin, has assured protesting students of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences that their concerns raised during a sit-in last Friday will be addressed immediately. He told the students when receiving a seven-page petition containing protests over the student’s welfare which was presented ... <a title="‘I hear your cry’, UPNG chief tells protesting medical students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/12/i-hear-your-cry-upng-chief-tells-protesting-medical-students/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I hear your cry’, UPNG chief tells protesting medical students">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Advocates and defenders of a nuclear-free Pacific have condemned the AUKUS military pact and warned New Zealand that the agreement would make the world “more dangerous” and should not join. Participants at a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement teachers’ wānanga launched a petition against the pact with one of the “elders” ... <a title="Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/11/nuclear-free-campaigners-warn-against-aukus-raising-pacific-tensions/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions">Read more</a>
