Scheduling to meet PVCA

Since Monday 26th January, Louise and I have been busy trying to schedule a meeting with Pro-Vice Chancellor-Academic, Dr. Eci Nabalarua. This is based on a recommendation after our presentation to our VC and after doing so, the formation of a steering committee will eventuate that will begin the mammoth task of organising the final dissemination event to be held in early 2010 here in USP. We are now confirmed to meet with the PVCA next week, Thursday 5th February 2009 @ 10.30am in the New Admin Conference Room. Those that will be in attendance from CFDL are as follows:
Jenny Evans, Valentine Hazelman, Eileen Tuimaleali'ifano, Theresa Koroivulaono, Makarita Erasito and Louise and myself of course. We will be posting an article on this after the meeting.

Show & Tell presentation @ OPS Meeting

Today, I did a presentation during our show & tell segment of our operations meeting held from 10am-12pm at the Green Room. This was simply to give an update of the project. Those in attendance come under the course design & development section of the Centre for
Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL).

Cost Statements (UK & Mauritius) submitted

Whew! What a relief! After painstakingly slaving off compiling the statements for UK and Mauritius, its FINALLY finalised and the statements with its supporting documents were sent via email to Nigel as follows:
UK - 15/1/09 (Fiji time)
Mauritius - 16/1/09 (Fiji time)

Lessons learnt - For the upcoming cost statements we will finalise these immediately after each event is complete and of course solicit more input from our finance department.

Still trying to wrestle with the monthly timesheets! To be finalised soon!

Meeting with Finance

As per the project requirement of providing cost statements, I had a meeting with Raksha Ben from our Finance Department today at 10am at her work station on behalf of Louise and I. .
The meeting was to make clarifications on cost statements for the UK and Mauritius trip. It has been quite an experience collating the statements but nevertheless learnt a lot about financial reporting in the process. We are aiming to submit the cost statements to Nigel before the week ends. Louise by the way is currently in Tonga conducting Success@USP orientation training for campus staff. Hopefully, she gets back safely amidst the tropical depression/flood conditions that Fiji is currently experiencing.