In the next stage of our transition journey toward becoming the Pasifika Communities University (PCU), college staff and faculty convened in Suva, Fiji, last week. During the four-day workshop, they focused on planning for PCU. This included gaining a comprehensive understanding of the educational context in the Pacific, enhancing clarity regarding the structures, systems, policies,...Read More

More than 200 policy makers, educators, university, governments, and religious representatives, including students and ordinary citizens from the centre of Australian politics, Canberra, attended the annual public lecture delivered by the college Principal, the Rev. Professor Dr Upolu Luma Vaai at the Australia National University on the topic “The ‘Whole of Life’ Way: Pasifika Relational...Read More

The methodology of the Pasifika philosophies course is based on the saying, “the Toloa takes off but returns to the waters.” This is a dictum that captures the toloa (goose) as a metaphor for a migratory quest of those seeking fresh waters to renew their political, economic, religious, familial, or knowledge endeavors. While the Toloa...Read More

The Principal of the College, Revd. Professor Dr Upolu Luma Vaai started the philosophies stream with two mentoring sessions, “Introducing the Course: Why Pasifika Philosophies” and “Unlocking the Pasifika Philosophical Mind”. He challenged the Toloa participants that “if life in Pasifika is about relationality, grounded on the importance of relationships as the key to knowledge...Read More