USP Alafua Campus

The Government Press Secretariat said the name change was approved by Cabinet at its meeting in November 2020.

The official name will now be ‘Samoa Campus’.

The Alafua Campus was originally the South Pacific Regional College of Tropical Agriculture, established with New Zealand Assistance in the early 1960s under the Colombo Plan. 

In 1977, the Government of Samoa leased the campus to The University of the South Pacific and it was Agricultural Campus of the University, with the School of Agriculture (SOA) .

The University will be hosting an ‘Information Day’ on the available Pacific TAFE programmes.

Tofiga will be giving a motivational talk to students as announced by USP.

The 45-year-old is loved in Samoa and across the Pacific by people of all age groups, young and old alike.

The information day is aimed at students from high schools around Samoa.

A total of 141 students graduated from the university and a total of eight graduated with Master’s Degree.

A statement said students from eleven countries which included countries from as far as Nigeria, Belize, Jamaica and New Zealand were part of the graduation ceremony.

More than 70 staff and students of the Alafua Campus were at the Government Building from as early as 4am to join Government ministries, schools and organisations in the March Past to observe the first former colony in the Pacific to be given right to form its own government.

A range of events were organised over the two-day national holiday declared by Samoa’s Government to allow the nation to celebrate the freedom that Samoa enjoys today.