Colonial

Ways On

The Campus

Academics at the University of the Duth Pacific in Suva recruited from atside the region are expected soon ' be receiving much higher salaries ;an staff with comparable qualifica ons but recruited from within the 3uth Pacific.

Despite strong protests by the USP ;aff Association, the University ouncil has accepted in principle the ea of metropolitan governments ipplementing the salaries of recruited from outside the :gion.

Some staff members will receive vice as much as staff recruited within ic university region.

The Staff Association, which has majority membership of expatriates, night against this form of discrimina on. It believes it is wrong for the auth Pacific and likely to cause [visions on campus and, possibly, spate of resignations.

The association is just as much isturbed about the way in which le decision was taken. It believes lat the finance ministers of the auth Pacific decided among them :lves to seek supplementation from ictropolitan governments, and then ent ahead with moves in that direc on.

Some time after their decision, atification of “recommendations for ipplementation” came before the cecutive committee of the Univer ty Council which accepted this in rinciple.

The Staff Association said the auncil was supposed to be the scision-making body of the univer ty with the power to decide on :ademic salaries and conditions. But the decisions were to be made by le region’s finance ministers, :ademics would become the only gnificant group of workers without le means to negotiate on salaries nd conditions.

Ng Hotel Walk Out.—Mem

;rs of the PNG Constitutional lanning Committee, in Kainantu in ugust to spread information about ie constitution, walked out of the lainantu Hotel where they had re eved accommodation. After book ig into the hotel they went to the ining room but some of them were ffused admission because they were r earing sandals instead of shoes nd socks. The whole party then talked out. There’s likely to be a squel!