A ‘70s alumnus of The University of the South Pacific (USP) and the present Associate Professor of Professional and Practice Based Learning at Griffith University, Associate Professor Sarojni Choy (nee Naidu) came as a student to USP in 1976 and graduated with a Diploma of Science in 1978.
Dr Choy describes her experiences at USP as enriching. “I came as a naïve village girl and was transformed into a professional teacher. I lived on campus and was immersed in a rich multi-cultural community of students from eleven (11) Pacific countries and international staff who brought together a mix of ethnic cultures, languages, values, understandings and different perspectives on life. The campus offered a shared space to commingle, learn and live together. I was the first and remain the only child in my family with tertiary education.”
USP was the only institution in Fiji that offered University qualifications in the 1970s and Dr
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