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"I thought I was speaking English [to Education Ministry staff] but I was not evidently". NFP condemns Civil Service Reform Unit Director Jane Curran and brands her comments as smacking of Racism against Fijians

24/8/2017

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"Remarkably the Attorney General who may have heard Ms Curran’s comments, chose to remain silent when apart from casting racial aspersions, Curran also degraded the Ministry staff as inferior in intellect. Does this mean that he condoned her racist remarks?" - NFP

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Director Of Civil Service Reform Management Unit Jane Curran with Attorney General Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum
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August 24, 2017
 
MEDIA RELEASE
 
CURRAN’S COMMENTS SMACK OF SHEER RACISM
 
Comments at the start of a Government Roadshow for Teachers by the Civil Service Reform Unit Director Jane Curran cast racial aspersions and has trampled on the sterling qualifications and credibility of staff of the Ministry of Education. 
 
The National Federation Party condemns her remarks in the strongest manner and calls on the World Bank to look into this condescending approach in its capacity as technical advisors to the civil service reforms.
 
Ms Curran’s comment while addressing teachers together with Attorney General Honourable Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum at Jai Narayan College on Monday (21 August) is an example of arrogant racism.
 
Remarkably the Attorney General who may have heard Ms Curran’s comments, chose to remain silent when apart from casting racial aspersions, Curran also degraded the Ministry staff as inferior in intellect. Does this mean that he condoned her racist remarks?
 
While addressing teachers who gave up their school holiday time to attend the Roadshow, Ms Curran claimed the Education Ministry made mistakes to contracts for teachers, because they apparently did not provide the required information as required by her.
 
Ms Curran said amongst other things, “…It was a bit of I thought I was speaking English but I wasn’t evidently. When I asked the question and on their defence they thought they were answering my question...” – Fiji One News, 23rd August 2017
 
Ms Curran is obviously of the view that the Education Ministry staff do not understand and speak English. This is patronising and humiliating of the Ministry staff. While the staff may not speak English as perfectly as Ms Curran as it is her mother tongue, she should know that English has been the common language in Fiji for many years.
 
A vast majority of our people including civil servants are proficient in both spoken and written English, and a great many more Fijians hold high profile positions abroad on the back of our Education system. Staff of the Education Ministry are no exception.
 
Ms Curran deflecting blame on others for errors on her watch are a further indictment on her professionalism and capabilities.
 
The World Bank should immediately take appropriate steps to ensure its international standards are upheld.
 
Authorised by:
 
Pio Tikoduadua
President

From Fijileaks archive, 18 December 2015

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1. Eroni Loganimoce had qualified and was promoted to Principal Administrative Officer (Personnel) in 01/10/2012 from PSC and had proven himself to be a performer since then. Whilst in PSC he had formulated Policies on HR and even collated the “GO” and the “Terms and Conditions of Employment for Government Wage Earners.”
2. The authority is within Section 127(8) of 2013 Constitution therefore need not to seek PSC’s approval. Eroni has been performing exceptionally well even before he join the Ministry of Education. He is pursuing his Executive MBA in order to excel to higher positions in Government. Besides, he have; a Diploma in Economics; Registered Trainer; and an Executive Diploma in Leadership sponsored by PSC for all Directors and DSs in 2013 and Eroni was recognized because of his abilities and performance.
3. The 3 New Directors are savings from tradeoffs of position and are within the Ministry Budget provisions
4. Mr. Naleca has been side way transferred to ED1D position and therefore the PEO (ESU) is vacant.
5. AAO Busfare is a Project Post and is specifically for Busfare procurement and payments and was established  in January 2014.  The other AAO is an established position and are responsible for general Ministry’s compliance.

In stating the above Sir, The MOE is awaiting the FTA executives to practice a little show of respect and present at least a little 'matanigasau' to the MOE and its Hon. Minister after the serious of negative comments and unprofessional attacks voiced in the media and blog sites. Since when had we gone out there to be parties to dirty verbal attacks on the blog-sites? Blog-sites are not for professionals to be firing at each other.  If the Union is serious about positively contributing to the development of education in Fiji and has a pure heart for caring for and enhancing education for the future generations of our beloved nation then we beg your good office to come and seek reconciliation with the highest office of education on the land. Lets not put to waste what good understanding and relationship that had been fostered previously by our union leaders whom have partnered positively with MOE to shape the Fiji Education system to what it is today.

The world is changing, and as Tom Friedman has demonstrated, it is increasingly flat. Globalisation is changing everything about how we work, how we communicate and ultimately how we live. It is critical for us in Fiji to note and learn that Financial responses and issues alone will not safeguard our economic and social well-being, and that substantial, strategic investments in education and a professional attitude to 'spartnership are essential to Fiji education system's long-term prosperity and to our success as a democracy. We cannot bail ourselves out of this crisis through continuously attacking each other unnecessarily for it will show the outside world that our teacher Unions and the MOE have got it ALL WRONG.  It is with due urgency that we need to foster partnership for the sake of our future generations to come.

May God BLESS FIJI, FTA and MOE

Vinaka Saka Vakalevu

Iowane P Tiko
PEO(ESU) for MOE

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Summary

Over 15 years experience implementing change in the public sector with successful outcomes in the Education, Law and Justice, Health, Transport, Electoral sectors and for whole of government through central agencies. Experience leading and managing multi disciplinary teams in diverse and challenging environments.

Specialities: Human Resource Management (policy development, HR planning, HRD planning). Public Sector change management and organisation development. Project management including leading multi disciplinary teams.

Election Specialist (Human Resources), Australian Civilian Corps Deployment
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

November 2013 – November 2015 (2 years 1 month)
Work with the Fijian Elections office to develop the Human Resource plan, recruitment plan and human resource manual to support the 2014 Fijian National Election. Support the recruitment, training and deployment of ongoing and temporary staff for the Fijian Elections office. Following the 2014 Election, continue to support the FEO in the review of election operations, the development of the Human Resource Policy Manual and to plan the staffing requirements for the 2018 National Election.

HR / Finance Specialist, Australian Civilian Corps
AusAID

June 2012 – September 2012 (4 months)
Support the introduction of Electronic Voter Registration in Fiji. Organise the contracting, payment, training and deployment of over 1000 temporary staff throughout Fiji to undertake electronic voter registration.


Causes Jane cares about:
  • Animal Welfare
  • Civil Rights and Social Action
  • Human Rights
Full CV, click below:

https://au.linkedin.com/in/jane-curran-45bb3825
6 Comments
Rajend Naidu
24/8/2017 09:29:35 pm

Editor,
Reform Required
An independent review of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC ) has found the toxic workplace environment in the organisation was a whole lot worse than was alleged ( abc news 24/08 ).
The allegation of bullying, shaming and mismanagement, and poor leadership formed the election platform of the woman who challenged the position of president . The incumbent who has held the position for 27 years won.
He has refused to accept any personal responsibility for the rot in the organisation under his long watch.
I have said this before and I repeat when people are parked in positions of power for too long shit begins to happen. That's true of sports, politics, government etc,
We have had that in the Fiji FA .
AOC has pledged to implement all the recommendations of the independent review to reform the organisation.
Any independent review undertaken of the Fiji FA?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Refugee
24/8/2017 09:56:14 pm

The World Bank “Specialist” of many and varied things, Jane Curran, must understand that Civil Service (including Teachers) Reform is too important an agenda to be madly rushed. It needs a lot of ‘talanoa’ over many basins of kava, all in our culturally correct context of “Fiji-Time”. These reforms not only concern the immediate ‘bread and butter’ issues of the civil service but also concern the future of our children (the students), the parents and the general expectations of the Fiji citizens on the quality of service from their civil servants.

An important agenda of this nature should BEST be left in the safe hands of Fiji’s next elected government – especially when the next elections are just around the corner!

The “Reforms” would then have more consensus and democracy and enjoy more legitimacy, rather than, as it now seems, an ultra ‘right-wing’ agenda, being shoved up the throats of the civil servants – bypassing the required negotiations through their respective unions.

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Refugee
24/8/2017 11:01:35 pm

Whotta a picture!!! Whotta a pair!! (Speaks a thousand words) of our ‘Minister of Everything” with the “Specialist of Everything”.

Unsurprisingly, the teachers (evidently) didn’t take well, the proposed ‘reform’ changes, concerning their professions and their livelihoods - put so arrogantly and patronizingly by a world ‘specialist’ of ‘sacking’ workers.

Simply put Jane Curran is here to ‘sack’ a fair percentage of our civil servants. Jobs are at risk! Arse-lickers will get promoted by ‘special’ individual contracts. It is a direct onslaught on the ‘solidarity’ of the collective. Age and experience will count for nothing. All in the bull-shit names of ‘efficiency’ and ‘productivity’, ‘downsizing’ or ‘rightsizing’.

Workplace reforms of workers traditionally attuned to ‘collective’ representations by their Unions needs their Unions (as a matter of their ‘rights’) to be involved in these crucial negotiations. The Unions are BEST placed to put the ‘proposed’ ‘reforms’ for ‘open’ discussions with their membership regarding “reform” implications and consequences.

The problem is with the message, nothing to do with Curran’s rural Aussie accented English.

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Master
25/8/2017 08:30:55 am

Great to see this monster of a woman cited. She is as as arrogant as her mentor, ASK. She is an imposter. The World Bank scrapes the bottom of the barrel to send such misfits to the megalomaniac ASK. She has been been condescending to us blacks for far too long. She is the face of ASK's so called Civil Service Reforms. Such condescending expatriates run the authoritarian regime called cynically THE FIJI GOVERNMENT.











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Civil Servant
25/8/2017 09:10:17 am

And where is the self appointed APEC expert and ASK's left, Bernafat Welch. Another expat expert imposed on the "natives".

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Tomasi
25/8/2017 06:38:27 pm

Victor, you rightfully ask what Khaiyum thinks or says about the lady consultant’s attitude and actions , because the buck stops with the twin dictators. They are ultimately responsible for everything that happens under their dictatorship.

But, by doing so, we are allowing the silent majority of FFP parliamentarians to sit and watch and walk along doing nothing. So much has happened since 2006? More has happened since 2014. Things are not getting better but worse. We are not fooled by all the public charades and media propaganda. This has been going on for too long. These two buggers are destroying our society. When will we hold them accountable? But when will we the people demand our dues from those political stooges in parliament ? I believe they are most responsible for the continued destruction of our society by these two dictators?

I am sure that many MPs are well-meaning people, and are very capable leaders and decision makers. This includes many FFP members. But most choose to remain safe and silent. Why can’t they speak out about vital issues that concern our nation? Why do they allow Bai and Khai to rule without impunity over them and the nation? Is it their positions and salaries that make them numb and dumb?

If FFP politicians are listening, please be honourable for once. Do the honourable thing. Stand up for what is right. Speak up and be heard. Stop kowtowing to the two dictators. We know many of you were very good people. What happened? Have you lost your voices or your sense of pride and concern for Fiji? We have been watching you. Please act now and be counted. Or you can resign, because you do not deserve to be paid for your silence and cowardice.

By the way, we must also consider the very real possibility that the Oz consultant may be telling us a bitter truth about the cadre and quality of Fijian leadership today. She has not minced her words on her judgement about the intellectual capacity of those in the Education ministry of all places. If what she claims is true, then what must we do about that? Maybe, Khai did not respond because he knows he and Bai are responsible. If Tiko's and Eroni's promotions have been questioned by FTA and others, then the lady may be helping us in sounding an alarm to the nation.

What is she saying? "Wake up Fiji. You have dumb people leading your Education ministry. They cannot think logically, holistically, anlytically, strategically, out of the banana plantation syndrome. You better make some changes mates. If not, then do not blame me for not telling you. Your schools will be turning our morons, zombies and good for nothing soldiers and yes people. Your banana dictatorship will become a khabana commune. I am not kidding mates. You have been warned. Thanks"

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