Full coverage of the USP saga including coverage of protests, investigations, reports and meetings.
The USP Council has resolved that the BDO Report be released to Council members only.
The Council is now in recess and will reconvene on Wednesday, 12th August 2020 at 9.30am.
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About 500 USP staff and the USP Students Association want USP VC to remain – Fong
It is up to the USP Council on what it decides – Pro Chancellor Thompson
By Vijay Narayan,Naveel Krishant, Semi Turaga
About 500 staff of the University of the South Pacific and members of the USP Students Association want the USP Vice-Chancellor Pal Ahluwalia to remain in office and to be assessed based on his Key Performance Indicators.
Staff representative, Elizabeth Fong says Usp has about 1,400 staff and more than 40 percent of the staff want Vice-Chancellor Ahluwalia to remain in office.
She says Ahluwalia had found out that there were governance issues when the previous Vice-Chancellor was in office. Fong says there should no interference. The USP Students Association says they will not hesitate to join member countries to initiate USP council proceedings to remove Pro-Chancellor Winston Thompson should he continue to allegedly defy council resolutions and allegedly act against the intents of the USP Council.
They want the commission appointed by the USP Council to complete their appointed task and allow Vice-Chancellor Ahluwalia to carry out his tasks and responsibilities without undue interruption from Thompson and his associates.
Spokesperson Aneet Kumar stresses that the biggest victims out of this power struggle in the university are the students.
USP Pro Chancellor Winston Thompson left the Executive Committee meeting in the last hour and may return later.
Thompson says it is up to the council whether he should be dismissed or not and he hopes people base their concerns on facts.
VC Ahluwalia still unaware of his suspension pending investigations
No official comments made by USP Council
By: Vijay Narayan, Semi Turaga, Naveel Krishant
USP Vice-Chancellor Pal Ahluwalia says he has not been informed that he has to step aside so that investigations against him for alleged misconduct can be done.Although Fijivillage has received information that Ahluwalia has been suspended pending an independent inquiry, he says he does not want to comment on any reports saying that he has to step aside.
He says he has done nothing wrong and he will fight any allegations lawfully. Ahluwalia adds that there have been nine investigations against him already.
As the USP Vice-Chancellor came out to meet his supporters yesterday, he was met with cheers.
After thanking his supporters, they prayed together.
When approached for a comment, USP Pro-Chancellor Winston Thompson says he is not in a position to reveal anything at this time.
Concerns continue to be raised about the operations at USP and students are also saying that all this drama is affecting their education.
