The University of the South Pacific’s Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Pal Ahluwalia
The University of the South Pacific’s Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has announced an initiative to support female staff at the University progress through the institution’s ranks.
A Strategic Fund is set up to allow women who are on the thresholds of academic promotion to take time out from teaching to focus on their research and publications.
Aligned with this year’s International Women’s Day theme, Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress, this initiative aims to encourage and hasten the progress of women at the University through the academic ranks.
It is the first in a suite of initiatives that the University is developing as part of its multi-pronged action plan to increase the number of women in senior management and academic roles across the institution.
USP Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Pal Ahluwalia said, “the University is endeavouring to offer opportunities to appoint more women into senior academic roles and this will directly assist existing female academic staff and will give them valuable time away from teaching to focus on their research and publication to position themselves for promotion up the academic ranks. It ties in well with this year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Invest in Women: Accelerate progress’– this initiative will do just that!”.
Details of this important initiative will be released soon. Other plans in the pipeline include a women’s leadership and mentoring programme that is under development with international partners.