> F$10 MILLION EUROPEAN UNION GRANT FOR USP TO EXPAND REGION'S HUMAN
> RESOURCES By Naziah Ali SUVA, Fiji Islands (March 13, 2002 -
> Wansolwara Online- USP/Pasifik Nius)---The F$ 10 million (US$
> 4,386,500) grant given to the University of the South Pacific will
> enhance the region's human resources by expanding the university's
> delivery of training in public management, tourism and labor studies,
> says Frans Baan, delegation head of the European Commission for the
> Pacific. EU gave almost F$ 40 million (US$ 17,546,000) for three
> financing agreements, including the USP grant, at a signing ceremony
> at the Forum Secretariat today. "Today's signing is an eagerly awaited
> and very happy occasion for USP," said the Deputy Vice Chancellor,
> Professor Rajesh Chandra. "The agreement we are privileged to sign
> today is the culmination of a long, strategic process to prepare three
> major project proposals, which represent critically important areas
> for USP and the people of the South Pacific Region: tourism,
> management and labor and employment," he said. The other grants were
> for the Fiji School of Medicine infrastructure development project, a
> reducing vulnerability in the Pacific project with SOPAC and the USP
> human resource development project. Prof. Chandra said today's
> agreement would boost three major projects for USP. This would see the
> establishment of USP as a center of excellence in tourism education
> and research. The establishment of a management and organizational
> program would be implemented by the university's Pacific Institute of
> Management and Development (PMID). The final project aims to "address
> the large knowledge gap" over the South Pacific labor market. USP aims
> to generate this valuable knowledge base through the establishment of
> a Regional Comparative Employment and Labor Studies Unit," said Prof.
> Chandra. He thanked the European Union for the grant, saying the three
> projects were strategically vital to USP and the people of the
> Pacific. Title -- 3571 EDUCATION: $10m EU grant for USP to expand
> region's human resources Date -- 13 March 2002 Byline -- Naziah Ali
> Origin -- Pasifik Nius Source -- Wansolwara Online, 13/3/2 Copyright
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