University of the South News

The Education Ministry has been allocated a $312.7m budget for 2010, the largest in the Government's projected expenses announced today.

Adolescents and young people in rural areas in the Pacific have limited access to information, counselling and services on reproductive and sexual health.

The USP Council has decided to lay off staff by mid next month staff in order to stop incurring losses in the dining hall, which came about after the council handed living allowances to student.

THE focus of the 2010 Budget should be to rehabilitate the agriculture sector and the commitment to continue improving the infrastructure, says economist Dr Biman Prasad.

Miss Niue, Carthy Lavini, knows she has to live up to the huge expectations of her people.

SOLOMON Islander Lons-dale Meta will carry Suva's hopes in the boy's Under-14 400 metres race on Friday and Saturday.

The passing away of a gentleman and career diplomat, Tia Barrett, has come as a shock to those who knew him.

SYDNEY :A Fiji's coup culture is costing it billions of dollars and unless democracy is restored the country risks hunger and further impoverishment, a leading Fiji economist and former shadow finance minister warned yesterday.

Of the many fields of study Robert Wichmann has pursued - a dual degree in chemical and electrical engineering and a degree in law - his time spent in the Education for Ministry program of the University of the South was the most inspirational.

The Institutes of Technology in Athlone, Blanchardstown, Carlow, Dundalk, Dun Laoghaire, Galway-Mayo, Letterkenny, Limerick, Sligo, Tallaght and Tralee have combined in a bid to see the entire sector re-designated as part of a University of Technology.

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KATIE Grover will never forget her Fiji family when she returns home to the United States at the end of her student exchange program next month.

Our Back Pages brings you tidbits of this week in Nashville history from near and far, chronologically speaking.

Cumberland Plateau groups are looking to expand efforts to preserve and connect large tracts of plateau land -- a minimum of 1.7 million acres and perhaps about 2 million acres.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right speaks as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Washington, DC Since its independence more than 160 years ago, Liberia has often been said to have a special relationship with the United States.

Opening thought: He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: He that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

This has been confirmed Multi-Ethnic Affairs Director Suchil Sudhakar who said that 6,000 scholarship application forms have been distributed and the Department has already received 2,000. He said they hope to receive the rest of the forms this coming week.

Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has called on journalists to think outside the box and cover vital stories facing a nation.

University of French Polynesia's re-elected president Louise Peltzer, a former minister of culture, believes future Pacific regional cooperation could include journalism, language and communication technologies.

A University of the South Pacific journalism alumni says he hopes winning a major award in Asia-Pacific journalism will draw attention to climate change and encourage greater coverage of this issue in the regional media.