The University of Papua New Guinea has for a long time
been in need of far-reaching reform. But not all change is good, and what has happened this year at UPNG has taken the university in the wrong direction.
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In late January, the Higher Education Minister, Pila Niningi, dissolved the UPNG Council, appointed a new interim council, and put in his own choice of vice-chancellor, all on the grounds that the old council was not performing.