University

Pacific's Second

Gets Going

As Papua-New Guinea’s n university in Port Moresby v

officially opened on August ]

in Suva plans were well z vanced for the new University the South Seas to be establish there. An interim council for t Suva university will meet for t first time in September. rpHE University of Papua-N Guinea has been functioning a going concern since March, a the opening was a formality by Ai tra 1 i a’s Governor-General, Lc Casey. The university has an acaden staff of 49, and basic faculties of Ai Science and Law are currently givi degree courses to 223 students, ma of whom had already completed a f preliminary year at the university.

Latest academic appointment, £ nounced in August, is that of Mr.

D. Rowley to the foundation Chair Political Studies. Mr. Rowley, 61, a former principal of the Australi School of Pacific Administration. 1 will take up his appointment in 19(

Suva plans

In Suva, Sir Norman Alexand* who was appointed in July as vie chairman of the interim council the new University of the Sou Seas, has been busily preparing su missions to be put before the cou cil’s inaugural meeting.

The council will elect a chairma and arrange appointment of a vie chancellor and staff, but Sir Norm; will administer university affairs ai organise the planning until it formally established as an entity in own right.

He hopes that some prelimina classes will get under way by ne March, but details have yet to 1 worked out. Sir Norman says tl university will need 10 or 15 studer a year in any subject before a cla can be economic.

The interim council will have : members, including three appoint* by the High Commissioner for tl Western Pacific, two from Weste; Samoa and one each from Ton] and the Cook Islands. The vie chancellor designate and the F Director of Education will be < officio members.

The two universities are the fir in the South Seas.