USPGATE: We are waiting for response from USP VC Rajesh Chandra!

18/4/2016

Julab dean

18/4/2016 10:37:08 am

Don't hold your breath waiting for a response victor. He is probably in the bathroom having a julab. Or he might come groveling to you. I hope you do not let this khaiyum lackey off easily for, as you say, engendering a sycophantic system that sheltered mini tyrants like Ashwin Raj and saw people like wadan narsey with decades of dedicated service shoved out because maharajah rajesh was too sensitive to criticism. Expose this fraud and the damage done to usp victor.

Chalau

18/4/2016 11:26:15 am

Victor how dare you call the maharajah 'Rajesh' when all USP is under strict orders only to refer to him as vice- chancellor and vice-president bhaiyah.

Hypocrite Maharaja link

18/4/2016 11:38:59 am

In his fervor to please Khaiyum, Maharaja Rajesh has forgotten what an independent regional institute stands for. He has tarnished the imagine of what a good univerisity should be like. His meaning and understanding of an excellent university is a hypocrisy. Having reduced staff moral, bullied high achieving professors, favoring ass-licking unionists and favor seeking academics, the quality at USP leaves much questionable. Care to find out about appointments, promotions and pecks he gives to his cronies. Hypocrites like him are a shame of academia.

Pita

18/4/2016 11:39:54 am

What the USP expose will show is the "iron law of oligarchy" where once a reasonably bright academic ascends to the top job he surrounds himself with a praetorian guard of administrators whose principal motivation is to protect Nbr One and the hierarchy first and the objectives of the organisation as a second order priority

Observer

18/4/2016 12:01:19 pm

Maharajah Rajesh Chandra has destroyed great legacy of a successful regional organization built by the visionary founders of usp. The facade he has put up cannot hide the rot. Development of regional staff was at the heart of usp's future but rajesh destroyed it singlehandedly by replacing tutors and Asssitant lectures with teaching assistants on half the pay but equal of not more work. This is how Rajesh exploited local and regional workers at usp - reduced thier pay by half and at the same time destroyed their changes of moving up the academic ladder. Right from the start this man has been consumed with destroying the entitlements of staff. USP is now the worst crop Agency - at the arse end of the regional organizations. That's your legacy Rajesh. Staff just can't wait for tyrant's term to finish so the rebuilding can start.

Wrong End

18/4/2016 12:31:01 pm

What has reducing salaries and "destroying changes of moving up the academic ladder" gotta do with the issue of arse-licking the dictators? Observer seems to be obsessed with his low pay, which would be twice the pay of a 4.5 GPA school teacher, with half the work.

Tom

18/4/2016 12:24:46 pm

It's true that Rajesh Chandra targeted the most vulnerable like tutors and junior staff whose pay increase was deliberately delayed by years until cornered into accepting a reduced settlement. Savings were used to build a top heavy infrastructure - washed out expats on hefty lay packets and perks. Despite all the VPs and consultants and technical staff USP has actually gone backwards. It doesn't has much to show for. Shows how quickly poor leadership can bring down a noble institution to its knees.

Vision

18/4/2016 01:09:22 pm

Ganesh Chand turned FNU towards a more regional direction whereas Rajesh chandra turned a regional institution like USP into more like a national Fiji instituion. Lack of vision the problem.

New Information

18/4/2016 01:37:38 pm

Is it true that Kai asked Rajesh Chandra to provide an opinion on the performance of Dr. Ganesh and FNU and Rajesh said all that Kai wanted to hear in order to instruct Monster Reddy to fire Dr. Ganesh? With this, Kai achieved three things - he solidified allegiance of Rajesh by getting rid of his main rival for academic profile; he drove a permanent rift between Reddy and Dr. Ganesh so that Reddy had no one to turn to for advise after firing Dr. Ganesh, and of course, removed the man he hated the most.

Shakespear

18/4/2016 01:52:03 pm

The plot thickens...

Chiku

18/4/2016 06:09:25 pm

When a mediocre man acquires power his mediocre leadership is exposed. This is the story of Rajesh Chandra, the USP maharaja
( emperor ) with no clothes. Rajesh Chandra is a spineless, gutless fellow who was interested in only getting the top dog job at USP whatever it took and holding onto it . This is why he had no problem in sucking up to the twin dictators of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum. He compromised academic freedom at the university and damaged the university's reputation as the topmost institution of higher learning in the region.
By contrast Professor Wadan Narsey stood up for what a true academic must stand up for to protect the integrity of the university.
Today Wadan Narsey's reputation is as solid as ever. Rajesh Chandra's has gone to the dogs.

Govinda made professor for selling union and ass-licking maharaja link

18/4/2016 08:47:20 pm

Is it true that Govinda has been made a professor by Maharaja. What a joke!!!
Can someone tell us what great stuff has this academic done apart from selling the union and being the lap dog for Maharaja.

Dekho

18/4/2016 11:59:58 pm

I thought by now it was crystal clear that doing " great stuff " was not the criteria for getting ahead in the Fiji . The new criteria is you have to be a sycophant of those in positions of power. Remember those in positions of power have not got there themselves by doing " great stuff".

19/4/2016 12:41:39 am

So true. Ask Dr. Ganesh. He did great stuff at FNU. For this, Dr. Ganesh got fired. Now FNU full of corruption and decline. Just see Navua Farm. Dr. Ganesh acquired and changed its face. Now all on the ocean side given to Korean Company. Soon rest will be given to C J Patel. Great stuff frightens dictators. They signal independent thinking and thinking outside the box. Dictators hate this.

Injustice

19/4/2016 12:21:41 am

Rajesh stopped the appointment of the top ranked candidate for Director HR and now inferior candidate appointed. Selection committee including Wadan Narsey wife and Dr Jito know the true story. Similar case at FNU where Rajesh's friend the wannabee academic Chancellor Jannif also stopped the appointment of most qualified candidate and now Director HR advertised again last weekend. Both want a puppet and not someone who is an independant thinker.
Can Fiji Leaks contacts at USP please leak the reports , names of candidates etc or can you ask the 2 buddies to comment????

Bula

19/4/2016 10:37:20 am

This is not the only such appointment the Chandra has interfered with, or controlled. The others include bringing the following incompetents into the positions:

1. Director Marketing and Communications (Jaindra Karan, a failed bureaucrat and cousin of Chandra).

2. EDF - Kolinio Boila (a near fail accounts manager from the Faculty of Science suddenly elevated to EXECUTIVE Director Finance). His job is conveniently to sign what Maharajah Chandra bids, and this is rather convenient since the last EDF with a conscience who once famously told Chandra off in a SMT meeting for unethical financial diversion was fired. Today, Munish Malkik serves FNU.

3. Project Manager (STAR-Strategic Total Academic Review) that began in 2011 and was terminated in 2013 - Ashwin Raj. The project is terminated yet this sycophant is still employed doing Chandra's dirty work and bidding. Apart from being a loudmouth, he has yet to contribute a single constructive item in the last three SMT meetings.

4. Dilawar Grewal (Deputy Vice Chancellor [!!]) who came in as a consultant from 2010-2014 when he suddenly got appointed. This fearsome-looking egoistic prick was fired from his last university for antisocial tendencies and behavior, including not confirming to an appropriate dress code for an academic institution (who wears a ponytail and keeps an unkempt beard as a university DVC???). Then he crossed the sunny waters into the Pacific and has found some stinking dirt during his consultancy (into what is still unknown) on Chandra, as a result of that, has been appointed.

5. The two most incompetent deans ever to grace an academic institution (Anjeela Jokhan and Akanisi Kedrayate). Both are mediocre researchers.
Akanisi is a very poor teacher and an even worse researcher. Yet, since her meteoric rise during Tony Tarr’s time from a senior lecturer(!) to suddenly a deputy dean, and now dean, she has desperately clung to power by endorsing every single decision Chandra makes in SMT meetings. In return, she gets continued assurance and renewal as dean, while other deserving senior professors in FALE are pushed down and kept there. Education is suffering under her faculty leadership with unqualified, master’s graduates becoming lecturers and teaching the trainee teachers. How on earth can Pacific education ever elevate itself if such mediocre leadership of the education school and the overhead faculty is in place?

Anjeela is now an "expert" publishing in Engineering, computing and mathematics journals? How can a plant biologist, and a poor one too become an expert in such far-removed fields from biology? She is actually an academic cougar-in order to get promoted, junior, hardworking researchers and lecturers (Assistant Lecturer to Senior Lecturer) all include her name as an author. She doesn’t know her arse from her right hand in anything apart from plant biology, yet keeps getting scores of publications, and even VC’s awards for research!!!! In return, the actual authors get promoted. Last month, she was shopping and an assistant lecturer was tasked to “assist” towards this. What else this young man “assists” towards is an interesting question.

6. DVC Masaso – how could one forget this Tongan Toad whose sole job (now that he has been appointed) is to sign documents, and attend to openings of the university ablution blocks, halls etc. He can barely read and write, and his speeches, which are read worse than a kindy student would are mocked by students each time he lumbers over. The university community hasn’t quite figured out when this Chandra sycophant will leave. Not soon enough.

7. These sorry excuses of leaderships in the USP stem directly from the top heavy SMT. Chandra is here to stay and made sure he will. His request for extension of his already expired contract to 2018 to coincide with the USP’s 50th celebrations has been approved. He’s immediately made sure Jokhan, Kedrayate, Karan, Masaso, Boila, Grewal and other chamchas are going to be around. Yes, in this, he has been ably supported by nincompoops such as Govinda through union machinations. Yes, that’s why professor Govinda will now play his merry flute among the tired gopis of USP.

Watch on.

New Information

19/4/2016 01:14:17 am

I am not surprised. Mediocre people want only mediocre people to work for them. This is what made Dr. Ganesh different. He actively went out to get best minds from all over the world. Look at how FNU flourished so rapidly. But doing great stuff dont get one far.

20/4/2016 10:22:51 am

Ganesh chand n Neil sharma destroyed the surgical program

Dan

19/4/2016 01:26:10 am

I am not surprised. Mediocre people only want mediocre people to work for them. They are scared of smart and intelligent ones. This is what made Dr. Ganesh Chand stand out. He went out to get the best minds from all over the world. Look at how rapidly FNU flourished. Rest is for historians.

Janu

19/4/2016 06:50:29 am

Still waiting?? I have come back to fijileaks several times to see no change in status about so-called USPgate. A smear campaign perhaps?

Tamana

19/4/2016 12:46:26 pm

I don't blame you. Either you're totally detached from USP (no one studying there that you could relate to), or from reality (you don't care where the educated future of the Pacific and Fiji will mostly end up). The rest of us who care and want to make a difference are reading on, blogging on. Have you not read anything so far here?

Or is this one of the chamchas VC Chandra continues to keep around him, nodding each time he whips an an idiotic policy out of his posterior (they certainly can't be coming from a brain seeing their lack of merit and thought).

Tomasi

20/4/2016 03:10:19 am

Many of us know Rajesh from our USP days and even after that. My first impression of him was: “very mediocre and bordering on selfish”. That has become even more obvious and true after all these years, especially after he became the VC. He is intelligent, but has become very cunning, crafty malicious and morally corrupt.

It is sad that a gifted person like Rajesh could allow his selfish ambitions and inclinations to cloud his judgement, to the extent of sacrificing the national and regional interest of our Pacific nations for his own good. By extension, he has sacrificed the interests of all the USP students and their many thousands of families simply to promote and protect his own personal interests.

But you see, such a person fit the definition of Fiji’s current Government parliamentarians. From Bai, Khai, Bala, Reddy, Inoke, the Dentist Speaker, etc People of the same ilk, birds of the same feathers will want to flock and fly together.

Khaha hai

21/4/2016 10:26:03 am

What USPgate? What coercion and intimidation of staff? Not a shred of evidence as yet, just a lot of hoohaa!

Ya hai

21/4/2016 10:47:17 am

If there is no coercion or intimidation, why do you think everyone writes anonymously here, fool?

If you are so correct, put your name and test the waters!

Otherwise, shut up!

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USPGATE: We are waiting for response from USP VC Rajesh Chandra!

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