policemen doing DL courses through University of South Pacific

I Asume that if Police study there its a recognized school.
I don't know mach about australian QA in educcation.

Article from the ABC radio Australia. - like BBC in UK

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1465543.htm

Quote:

The first intake of Pacific policemen doing studies under the Pacific Regional Policing Initiative have finished their first semester.

Our reporter, Sean Dorney, says most of the 87 policemen involved are doing the course in their home countries through distance education.

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http://www.usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=distance_learning0
PDSU l Cook Islands l Fiji Centre North l Fiji Centre West l Kiribati l Marshall Islands l Nauru l Niue l Samoa l Solomon Islands l Tokelau l Tonga l Tuvalu l Vanuatu l

Extend DL to the islands

Learner

 

Ah yes. The University of the South Pacific. Every so often, in a staff and postgraduate common room in the rain-sodden and freezing UK a copy of the Times Higher Education Supplement will be found; in it there will be an advert surrounded by multicoloured stars emblazoned by the fed up and freezing denizens of the department for a job at the University of the South Pacific.

Er, to return to track, main campus in Fiji, satellite centres and campuses across the islands, and an extremely legitimate GAAP institution (Association of Commonwealth Universities) to boot.

Back when I (and my fellow freezing postgrads) were reading their adverts, they did a lot of distance learning by radio, very much like the outback schools in Australia and a lot of flying you to an outlying centre for a week to give an intensive set of courses as well as pure distance learning, which they've been doing for years.

Angela

 

Just given the geography in the South Pacific, with lots of tiny coral atolls scattered across thousands of miles of ocean, distance learning is almost mandatory.

I don't know much about this school, but I gather that despite its physical campus in Fiji, it began as kind of a regional institution in colonial days. The smaller island countries still contribute funding to it in exchange for the right to send their secondary graduates to study there. Kind of like the University of the West Indies, I guess.