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In considering Fiji’s recent actions on the USP and its Coun- students should USP terminate these students for incomplete
cil, one can be forgiven for assuming that the Bainimarama payment of fees. Furthermore, such action jeopardises the
government seemed to have strayed beyond the bounds of viability of the whole university since it affects the greatest
simply political and economic considerations. The distribu- number of students.
tion of power amongst USP members is certainly a factor that Further evidence of the short-sightedness of this delay is
impacts on the interests and incentives that would have com- provided by USP Chancellor himself when he was reported
pelled Fiji to act as it did. As we have seen above, however, to have said that: ‘No Fiji grant (sic), uni still afloat.’ The
Fiji opted to impede rather than to support the collective Chancellor made this comment whilst he was praising Vice
responsibilities of the Council. Chancellor and President (VCP) Pal Ahluwalia ‘for great work’
Methinks that Fiji’s consideration of power, resulting from after VCP’s deportation by the Fiji government.
its political and economic processes, has a differential dimen- The shadow engulfing USP is inflicting devastation. Its grow-
sion to it. I am reminded that in sociology, ‘it is common for ing length is suggestive of some forms of terminality. USP, for
power to be conceived of as involving issues of control and instance, may move the functions of its main campus from
coercion, where some groups use power to gain advantage Suva. Samoa has already offered. Some university members
over others in competition for scarce and valued resources.’ may withdraw to focus on their own national universities, thus
This power dimension, or a variance of it, sits snugly in altering the regionality of the institution. This may include
Bainimarama’s armoury of policy options. The government’s Fiji that is already on record that it wants its own national
love affair with curfews during the high-risk periods of post- university to be the premier university in the region. Should
COVID-19 and the draconian provisions contained in the draft this be the case, it can be envisaged that Fiji, of all the PIF
Police Bill 2020 (now retracted) to increase the power of the members, is that who is doing its darndest to incapacitate
police which will result in the curtailment of personal human Pacific regionalism.
rights stand firmly as prospective validation of the perversion
arising from this power dimension. editor@islandsbusiness.com
As regards ‘club’ myopia, I referred to above, it can be seen
that Fiji’s planned delay in the remittance of funds to subsi- The author is a former Fijian Ambassador and Foreign Minis-
dise the fees of its own students is somewhat short-sighted. ter and runs his own consultancy company in Suva, Fiji.
It lacks foresight. It only jeopardises the education of its own

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