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UNDER FIRE: Journalism pair Craddock and Thompson to face MIDA chairman Ashwin Raj's "punishment" via USP's internal inquiry!

25/6/2014

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25 June, 2014

Response to Media

Recent comments by our senior academic staff aired on Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat programme and appearing in the media have been brought to the attention of the University and concerns expressed about their accuracy and propriety.

The University again wishes to make it clear that the views expressed by Dr.  Matt Thompson and Mr. Patrick Craddock are their own.

The University of the South Pacific upholds the principle of academic freedom and the right of its members to comment responsibly and within their area of expertise on current affairs. 

As outlined in the University’s Code of Professional Conduct for Academic Staff, in doing so, staff must observe the laws of the State and comply with University statutes and rules.

Given the concerns expressed about the accuracy and propriety of the comments made by Dr. Thompson and Mr. Craddock, and to protect the academic freedom of all staff (and thereby ensure collective adherence to the University’s Code of Professional Conduct for Academic Staff), the University has initiated an internal investigation, and will consider appropriate action.

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For further queries please contact our Media & Public Relations Coordinator Ana Tudrau-Tamani on (679) 3232039, (679) 9719588 or email [email protected] at the Development, Marketing & Communications office.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS MAN, ISSUING "FATWAS" AGAINST REGIME OPPONENTS FROM INSIDE THE USP DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE: Ashwin Raj, STAR Project Manager, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor:  Learning, Teaching, and Student Services,University of the South Pacific, Private Mail Bag, Suva, FIJI;
Raj to Fijileaks Editor, calling another veteran journalist David Robie "self-aggrandizing foreigner" to Fiji!

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Raj calls the pair (Craddock and Thomspon) as: “Ill-informed, self aggrandizing, self-selected moral entrepreneurs. It is all too easy, in this context, for foreign academics having barely spent any significant time in Fiji, to drum up dialectics of freedom and un-freedom. Any responsible academic, as a necessary measure, would have first ascertained and corroborated the facts before making a series of gnomic pronouncements about freedom.”

Fijileaks Editor to Readers: Please scramble for your dictionary to find out what this self-aggrandizing regime puppet is to trying to tell you in his above statement --- gnomic!

Is Raj's comments against his own USP colleagues "responsible and acceptable" under USP's Code of Conduct for Professional Staff?

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This self-delusional in his moronic outburst has forgotten that Craddock is no stranger to FIJI - Patrick Craddock worked in Fiji for more than 12 years at the University of the South Pacific in Suva in using radio for education and lecturing in broadcast journalism. During 2008 he prepared radio programmes in Hindi, Fijian and English for the National Council for Building a Better Fiji explaining the draft content of the People’s Charter for Peace, Change, Progress and Prosperity. The NCBF was set up by Bainimarama after the 2006 coup

Fijileaks to MIDA chief: "You should have first ascertained and corroborated the facts before making a series of "gnomic" pronouncements about Craddock and his ignorance about Fiji.”

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6 Comments
USP-MIDA collusion
25/6/2014 04:28:42 am

Good on Fijileaks for shining the light on the University of the South Pacific. There is clear collusion between VC Rajesh Chandra's office and MIDA to suppress media and academic freedom on behalf of the regime.

The future of Ashin Raj and Rajesh Chandra's jobs depend on FijiFirst winning the election. So they working overtime to silence regime critics.

The University has initiated an internal investigation, and will consider appropriate action. That's another way of saying Pat Craddock and Matthew Thomson are on the way out.

The USP is controlled by the regime, which is unforgiving when it comes to criticism of its conduct.

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scoundrels in the media link
25/6/2014 12:33:02 pm

The Media Commissars are regime hound dogs loyally doing their duty for the Dictator.
They are there for him and not for a vibrant and free media or for the public good.
Nothing these regime skunks do should come as a surprise to anyone . They are regime hired hands. Regime henchmen. A snake will do what a snake must do.- bite instinctively. It's the same with the regime hound dogs. They will bite whenever anyone poses a threat to their political masters with their free speech.
Dictators and free speech don't go together. It is the job of the Media Commissars to keep it that way,

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Canada Boy
25/6/2014 01:22:07 pm

This MIDA moron needs to learn how to communicate in a lay mans language
He thinks his use of vocabs are to show his intelligence but it's showing that he is a nut case
He is a one sided moron

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Prathna
25/6/2014 04:21:23 pm

As Benjamin Disraeli would say, Raj is :
"Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity....."

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USP student
26/6/2014 06:44:42 pm

We just wish people brought here to teach would stick to teaching instead of involve in politics. There is too much instability in USP journalism. Only the students who pay fees suffer. During Marc Edge time when we have problems, journalism staff Nash Sorariba told students that Professor Sudesh Mishra threatened he will close down journalism programme and sack everybody. He said VC Rajesh Chandra will support his decision. We hope program is not close down as so many problems.

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Former USP Journalism student
17/7/2014 05:37:23 pm

#Journalism is not a crime

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