UNIVERSITY of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia will return to Suva and be based at the Laucala Campus.
His return from Samoa is compelled by a decision of the university council which met recently in Vanuatu.
Prof Ahluwalia did not respond to queries sent earlier this week.
Responding to questions from The Fiji Times, the university stated preparations were in progress to have the vice-chancellor return to Fiji.
“As we have indicated previously, when the university council agreed to renew the vice-chancellor’s contract for a further two years from August 2024, they also decided that the matter of his location should be discussed and resolved between the governments of Samoa and Fiji,” the USP statement read.
“At the recent council meeting in Vanuatu, the council further discussed the matter of the vice-chancellor’s location and agreed that the terms and conditions of the vice-chancellor’s new contract should base him in Suva.”
The university stated a date for Prof Ahluwalia’s move was yet to be determined.
Last year, members of the USP Staff Union expressed their disappointment over the professor’s decision to operate out of Samoa. He had been in Apia since 2021.
