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National University Of Samoa
The National University of Samoa (''Lē Iunivesitē Aoao o Sāmoa'') is the only national university in Samoa. Established in 1984 by an act of parliament, it is coeducational and provides certificate, diploma, and undergraduate degree programs, as well as technical and vocational training. About 2,000 students were enrolled in 2010 with an estimated 300 staff. It offers a wide range of programmes including Arts, Business and Entrepreneurship, Education, Science, Nursing, Engineering and Maritime Training. The Centre for Samoan Studies, established in the university for the teaching of the Samoan language and culture, offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as the world's first degree in Master of Samoan Studies. The National University of Samoa has the distinction of being one of two universities in Samoa. The second is the University of the South Pacific - Alafua Campus which specializes in Agriculture. The campus was built in part with funding from the Government of Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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NUS or Nus may refer to: *National University of Singapore * Nus, a town in the Aosta Valley of Italy * Neglected and Underutilized Species, or Neglected and Underutilized Crops * National Union of Students (Australia) * National Union of Students (Canada) (disbanded) * National Union of Students (United Kingdom) * National Union of Seamen * National University of Samoa * NUS High School of Math and Science * NUS, the product code used by Nintendo for Nintendo 64 hardware and software, a reference to the platform's preliminary name of Nintendo Ultra 64 * Norrland's University Hospital Umeå, Sweden * Nu Skin Enterprises (ticker code) * Nuussuaq Heliport (IATA airport code), in Nuussuaq, Greenland {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safua Akeli Amaama
Togialelei Safua Akeli Amaama (born ~1982) is a Samoan academic. She works as Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures at Te Papa, the National Museum of New Zealand and is the first Pacific person to hold the role. She is also Adjunct Research Fellow in the Museum and Heritage Studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and an Associate Researcher for the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Career Amaama left Samoa at the age of five and was raised in New Zealand and Australia. She has family links in Samoa in Tiavea, Vaiala, Samalaeʻulu, and Falese'ela. Amaama obtained a BA degree from the University of Otago, an MA in history from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a PhD in philosophy and history from the University of Queensland in Australia. Her research interests are in cultural heritage, health, migration, gender and governance. From 2008 to 2013 Amaama worked for Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maulolo Tavita Amosa
Maulolo Leaula Tavita Uelese Amosa is a Samoan academic, public servant, and politician. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party. Maulolo was the first person to graduate with a Master's degree from the ''Amosa o Savavau'' ( Indigenous University of Samoa). He later worked as Head of Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa, as the Director of Internal Affairs, and as a lecturer at the ''Amosa o Savavau'' in American Samoa. In 2010 he was Assistant Chief Executive of the Ministry of Women. He is the author of ''Fausaga o lauga Samoa'', a significant work on Samoan oratory. In February 2019 he claimed that Samoa's diaspora was undermining traditional cultural values of respect and deference in Samoa. In July 2019 he was summoned for contempt of court for breaching a court order prohibiting construction on a piece of disputed land. Political career Maulolo stood for election as an independent in the constituency of Sagaga-le-Usoga at the 2011 Samoan general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatoloai Tili Afamasaga
Gatoloaifa’aana Tilianamua Afamasaga (born 5 May 1947) is a Samoan educator. She has been active in teaching and teacher training for over 40 years. In 2016 she was awarded the Krishna Datt Award for Excellence in Trade Unionism and Leadership in the Pacific. Life Afamasaga was educated at Samoa College in Samoa, and Hamilton Girls' High School and Christchurch Teachers' College in New Zealand, where she trained as a teacher. She later studied at Victoria University of Wellington and Macquarie University in Australia. After teaching at Samoa College and Vaipouli College, in 1984 Afamasaga was appointed principal of Western Samoa Teachers College, a position she held for thirteen years. In 1997 the college merged with the National University of Samoa and she became the first Dean of the Faculty of Education. Eight years later, she became the first Director of the university’s Oloamanu Centre for Professional Development and Continuing Education. Afamasaga has been invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malama Meleisea
Malama Meleisea is a Samoan historian and the author of several historical books on Samoa. He holds the Samoan title Leasiolagi. Meleisea is from Poutasi in Falealili. He worked as a teacher before studying at the University of Papua New Guinea and Australian National University. He holds a Phd in History and Politics from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. In 1978 he became a lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. He was the founding director of Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at Canterbury University and director at Centre for Pacific Studies at Auckland University, New Zealand. In 2007 he was appointed UNESCO director in Bangladesh. Between 2011 and 2012 he served as a judge on the Land and Titles Court of Samoa. In 2016 he was appointed as one of the commissioners for a commission of inquiry into domestic violence in Samoa. Meleisea is currently Director of Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa The National University of Samoa (''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aiono Fanaafi Le Tagaloa
Aiono Fanaafi Le Tagaloa OM (25 June 1932 – 14 August 2014) was a chief ( ''matai''), scholar, historian and professor of Samoa. An authority on Samoan culture and language, she was one of the most educated female ''matai'' in the country with a PhD in educational philosophy and applied linguistics from the University of London. She was instrumental in formulating and implementing bi-cultural and bi-lingual education in Samoa, in particular, during her tenure as Director of Education for the government as the country moved from colonial rule to political independence in the early 1960s. She held other senior positions in education in Samoa, including Professor of Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa and principal of Samoa Teachers' College. Her distinguished career included politics and she was a former Member of Parliament in Samoa, having first entered parliament at the 1985 general election under the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP). In 1997, she found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faculty (division)
A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In American usage such divisions are generally referred to as colleges (e.g., "college of arts and sciences") or schools (e.g., "school of business"), but may also mix terminology (e.g., Harvard University has a "faculty of arts and sciences" but a "law school"). History The medieval University of Bologna, which served as a model for most of the later medieval universities in Europe, had four faculties: students began at the Faculty of Arts, graduates from which could then continue at the higher Faculties of Theology, Law, and Medicine. The privilege to establish these four faculties was usually part of medieval universities’ charters, but not every university could do so in practice. The ''Faculty of Arts'' took its name from the seven liberal arts: the triviumThe three of the humanities (grammar, rheto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magele Mauiliu Magele
Magele Mauiliu Magele is a former Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party. Magele is a former Vice Chancellor of the National University of Samoa. He was first elected to the ''Fono'' at the 2011 Samoan general election, and appointed Minister of Education, Sports and Culture. Following his election he was briefly suspended as a Minister pending the hearing of an electoral petition for bribery, but returned to work in May 2011. In 2013 he was recognised by the World Education Congress for his "Outstanding Contribution to Education". Magele lost his seat at the 2016 election. Following his election loss he was appointed Trade & Investment Commissioner at the Samoan consulate in Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tauili'ili Uili Meredith
Tauili'ili Uili Meredith (died 4 December 2007) was a Samoan Educator, Civil Servant and Diplomat. He served as Samoan Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union from May 1997 until September 2005. Tauili'ili was a civil servant, who served as Director of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Meteorology. He also served as Head of the University of the South Pacific's Alafua Campus and from 1985 - 1992 was the first Vice Chancellor of the National University of Samoa. In 1996 he was appointed Director of the 7th Festival of Pacific Arts. After retiring as an ambassador he moved to Melbourne, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ..., and died there in 2007. References 2007 deaths Samoan civil servants Ambassadors of Samoa to Belgium Ambassadors of Samoa to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |