Patrick Vakaoti

Even from afar one can feel the shackles fall! ❤️🇫🇯

His story lives on forever. Professor Brij Lal, 1952 -2021. Rest in love, Sir, We will never forget.

No words can express the sense of loss. Of his many gem phrases this one ranks highly. ‘I write to be read not to get ahead’. Ni qai gole ena vakacegu #ProfBVL.

@MichaelFieldNZ No words can express the sense of loss. Of his many gem phrases this one ranks highly. ‘I write to be read not to get ahead’. Ni qai gole ena vakacegu Prof!

Brij Lal, Fiji's treasured historian and writer, has died in Brisbane today. Emeritus Professor of Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, he was revered. Born in Fiji, Bainimarama had exiled him facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

@JopeTarai Me qai kerei rawa tu me nomu examiner🧐

AG vs FijiSun 😮🤔

we'll be running a series of online seminars from April 😃 First up will be @johnhshaver at 16:00EST, Tuesday 27 April, introducing our project "The evolutionary dynamics of religion, family size and child success" All welcome!

@hamerikaa My heartfelt condolences to you and the family. Na was a kind, caring & beautiful soul. E dau kila ka maroroya na veiwekani. Mosimosi dina. My thoughts are with you all today.

I wrote a piece for @TNP_Mag “Are we preparing our children all wrong for school?” thenaturalparentmagazine.com/are-we-prepari… #consciousparenting

‘The virus has no plan, it matters that society has a plan’. Well said @ProfessorHuish #OGHI2020

Otago Global Health Institute Conference begins with workshop on ‘Making connections meaningful:How can Maori values & tikanga inform best practice for global health engagement?’ @otago #OGHI2020

Fiji is #COVID free. Dr Aalisha Sahukhan shares how Fiji beat #COVID__19 at the #OGHImasterclass #teamFiji. To hear this story register here bit.ly/3hTSbsX

In the wake of the COVID19 pandemic hand sanitizers were in short supply. @otago academic Dr Shyamal Das & his students went to work producing 100L of sanitizer in 3 days. To hear more about this story register here bit.ly/3hTSbsX #OGHImasterclass

Locally led development is wonderful in theory but difficult in practice. This just published article w @profdavidhudson explores some of the dilemmas facing donors and locals. Free download: tandfonline.com/eprint/PRDPFRQ…

@otago has an amazing breadth and depth of knowledge about COVID-19. The two-week-long #OGHImasterclass begins today. Register for free here bit.ly/2V4TgUN

@UniSouthPacific @UniSouthPacific it’s quite obvious that students are suffering by the Acting VC appointment #USPsaga

Message to the #University Community from Professor Derrick Armstrong, Acting Vice Chancellor on the link below; usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=2…

@UniSouthPacific cannot continue to be in the words of Hau’ofa a ‘beautiful cemetery’. Staff & student protests demonstrate hope. Decisive regional leadership would be even better! #USPSaga

'Universities...have a critical role in rebuilding the lives of their students& can do so by actively engaging them to meet their needs, listening to their narratives, harnessing their creativity& reimagining the world with them' bit.ly/3cGYKeG @otago @The_BigQ #COVID19

‘Working students should not be in a position to choose finding work over their education’. More thoughts here: thebigq.org/2020/06/03/how…