Results for USP

The annual “Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing User Conference” commenced today November 25 at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. Two hundred people are expected to attend the 3 day conference.

A 22 year-old Tongan USP student, Sione Tufui, was killed in an alleged brawl outside a Suva nightclub last Friday night.

Two new Vice Presidents of USP, Dr Giulio Masasso Paunga of Tonga and Dr Dilawar Grewal, were appointed by the Executive Committee of the University of the South Pacific on February 24.

The 76th University of the South Pacific Council meeting to be held in Nuku'alofa on May 15-16, is expected to discuss the Fiji Crimes Decree and its liabilities for council members. The council's two days deliberation will also look at the university's Strategic Plan for the next six years, which includes development of an additional 14 acres of land for the USP in Tonga.

The signing of a lease agreement for the University of the South Pacific to lease 14 acres of Tonga government land on Saturday, June 9, marked the beginning of an expansion of the operation of the USP in Tonga.

The opportunity to enroll at the Open Schooling classes of the USP Campus, Tonga "was a dream come true", for Fine Feuiaki and Mafua Kiokata, two paraplegic patients at Vaiola Hospital.