2022 Principal Dates

JANUARY
1 Saturday Public Holiday (Tonga, RMI, Nauru, Samoa & Emalus, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands Campus) – New Year’s Day
2 Sunday
3 Monday Public Holiday (Kiribati, Niue, Fiji, Tuvalu Campus)– Holiday in Lieu of New Year’s Day
4 Tuesday Public Holiday (Niue Campus)- New Year Holiday
5 Wednesday
6 Thursday
7 Friday Semester 1: Admission Application Deadline for International Students.
8 Saturday
9 Sunday
10 Monday Trimester 1: Orientation (Graduate School of Business Students ONLY) Specific orientation dates will be communicated to students for different GSB Cohorts: 10 – 22 January
11 Tuesday
12 Wednesday
13 Thursday
14 Friday
15 Saturday
16 Sunday
17 Monday
18 Tuesday
19 Wednesday
20 Thursday
21 Friday PDLP: Deadline for late registration and adding of courses
22 Saturday
23 Sunday Trimester 1: Deadline for adding courses
24 Monday PDLP: Orientation and lectures commence & Invoice available on SOLS Trimester 1: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS Semester 0: Commences
25 Tuesday
26 Wednesday
27 Thursday Review Committee 1/22
28 Friday
29 Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday Semester 1: Undergraduate Admission Application Deadline for students new to USP and students resuming after a lapse of six semesters. Applications received after this date will incur a late application fee

Public Holiday (Nauru Campus) – Independence Day

FEBRUARY
1 Tuesday Public Holiday (Nauru Campus) – Day following Independence Day
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday Tender Board 1/22
4 Friday Trimester 1: Deadline for withdrawal from trimester 1 courses with no financial penalty PDLP: Deadline for withdrawal of courses with no financial penalty
5 Saturday
6 Sunday
7 Monday
8 Tuesday Global Engagement Strategy Committee 1/22 Staff Policy Committee 1/22
9 Wednesday
10 Thursday Governance and Nominations Committee1/22
11 Friday
12 Saturday
13 Sunday
14 Monday
15 Tuesday
16 Wednesday
17 Thursday Executive Committee 1/22
18 Friday PDLP: Deadline for payment of fees Trimester 1: Deadline for Payment of Trimester 1 fees
19 Saturday Trimester 1: Late Payment of Fee Period Start: Students who have not paid their fees in full will be required to clear all outstanding fees and a Late Payment fee of FJ$125.00 within the 1st four (4) weeks.
20 Sunday
21 Monday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – In memory of the “Fr. Of Independence “Fr.Dr.W.H.L
22 Tuesday
23 Wednesday
24 Thursday
25 Friday
26 Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday Semester 1: Postgraduate Admission Application Deadline for students new to USP and students resuming after a lapse of six semesters. Late application shall not be permitted.
MARCH
1 Tuesday Public Holiday( RMI Campus) – Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day

Innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching Committee 1/22

2 Wednesday Campus Life Committee 1/22 
3 Thursday University Research Committee 1/22
4 Friday Semester 0: Ends

Academic Programmes Committee 1/22

5 Saturday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Custom Chief’s Day / Fete des Chefs coutumiers
6 Sunday
7 Monday Semester 1: Orientation and Academic Advisory week; Registration continues Space Management Committee 1/22
8 Tuesday Teaching Quality Committee 1/22

Public Holiday (Kiribati, Nauru Campus) – International Women’s Day

9 Wednesday
10 Thursday Audit & Risk Committee 1/22 Review Committee 2/22
11 Friday Governance and Nominations Committee2/22
12 Saturday
13 Sunday
14 Monday
15 Tuesday Communication and Information Technology Committee 1/22
16 Wednesday
17 Thursday Tender Board 2/22
18 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for registration for all campuses. Students who register for courses after this date will be charged a late registration fee. Semester 1:

Undergraduate late Admission Application Deadline.

19 Saturday
20 Sunday Trimester 1: Late Payment of Fee Period continue: Students who have not paid their fees in full by this date will be liable for Late Payment fee as follows: · $150.00 (next 4 weeks after 20 March). · $200.00 thereafter.
21 Monday Semester 1: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS
22 Tuesday
23 Wednesday
24 Thursday
25 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for applications for change of programme PDLD: Deadline for Late Registration and adding of courses Medals and Prizes Committee 1/22
26 Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday PDLD: Lectures commence
29 Tuesday Student Discipline Committee 1/22
30 Wednesday Pacific TAFE Semester 2: Admission Application Deadline
31 Thursday
APRIL
1 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for applications for campus transfer; Deadline for late registration; Deadline for adding of courses for those who registered within the registration period (no fee charged for this cohort)
2 Saturday
3 Sunday
4 Monday
5 Tuesday
6 Wednesday
7 Thursday Audit and Risk Committee2/22
8 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for dropping of courses without incurring any tuition fee. Any courses dropped after this date will incur the full tuition fee. PDLD: Deadline for withdrawal of courses with no financial penalty

Trimester 1: Lectures end. Deadline for students to withdraw from courses they do not wish to be assessed in.

Global Engagement Strategy Committee 2/22 Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – World Health Day

9 Saturday Trimester 1: Study week and Examination period: 9 – 22 April
10 Sunday
11 Monday
12 Tuesday Finance & Resources Committee 2/22

University Scholarships Committee 1/22

13 Wednesday
14 Thursday Senate 1/22
15 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for payment of semester 1 fees for all campuses.

Public Holiday (Tonga, Niue, Nauru, Kiribati, Samoa, RMI, Solomon Island, Tuvalu, Emalus & Fiji Campus) – Good Friday

16 Saturday
17 Sunday
18 Monday Public Holiday(Tonga, Niue, Solomon Island, Nauru, Samoa, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Emalus & Fiji Campus) – Easter Monday
19 Tuesday Remuneration and People Committee 1/22 Medals and Prizes Committee 3/22

Public Holiday (Nauru Campus) – Easter Tuesday

20 Wednesday
21 Thursday Executive Committee 2/22
22 Friday PDLD: Deadline for Payment of Fees Staff Policy Committee 2/22 Medals and Prizes Committee 2/22
23 Saturday TRIMESTER 1 BREAK: 23 April – 8 May
24 Sunday
25 Monday Public Holiday(Niue, Tonga, Cook Islands Campus) – Anzac Day
26 Tuesday
27 Wednesday
28 Thursday
29 Friday Pacific TAFE Semester 1: Deadline for payment of semester 1 fees for all campuses
30 Saturday
MAY
1 Sunday
2 Monday PDLP: 1st Intake Placement Commences

Public Holiday (RMI, Kiribati, Emalus Campus) – Constitution & Labour Day

3 Tuesday Library Advisory Committee 1/22
4 Wednesday
5 Thursday Space Management Committee 2/22
6 Friday Academic Regulations & Policy Review Committee 1/22
7 Saturday MID-SEMESTER BREAK: 07 – 15 May
8 Sunday Trimester 2: Deadline for adding courses
9 Monday Laucala Campus Graduation: 09 – 13 May Trimester 2: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS Public Holiday (Samoa Campus) – Mother’s Day

Public Holiday (Tuvalu Campus) – Te Aso Tala Lei (Gospel Day)

10 Tuesday University Scholarships Committee 2/22
11 Wednesday
12 Thursday
13 Friday Trimester 2: Deadline for withdrawal from trimester 2 courses with no financial penalty
14 Saturday
15 Sunday
16 Monday Campus Life Committee 2/22
17 Tuesday Public Holiday (Nauru Campus) – Constitution Day
18 Wednesday
19 Thursday Council C93
20 Friday Council C93
21 Saturday
22 Sunday
23 Monday
24 Tuesday Innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching Committee 2/22
25 Wednesday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Children’s Day
26 Thursday Public Holiday(Emalus Campus) – Ascension Day
27 Friday PDLP: Last Day of Placement Samoa Campus Graduation
28 Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Independence Day
31 Tuesday Communication and Information Technology Committee 2/22
JUNE
1 Wednesday Public Holiday (Samoa Campus) – Independence Day
2 Thursday Tender Board 3/22

Public Holiday (Solomon Island Campus) – Queen’s Birthday

3 Friday Trimester 2: Deadline for Payment of trimester 2 fees Student Discipline Committee 2/22
4 Saturday Trimester 2: Late Payment of Fee Period start: Students who have not paid their fees in full will be required to clear all outstanding fees and a Late Payment fee of FJ$125.00 within the 1st four (4) weeks 4 June – 3 July
5 Sunday
6 Monday Public Holiday (Niue Campus) – Queen’s Birthday

Public Holiday (Solomon Island Campus) – Whit Monday

Public Holiday (Tonga Campus) – Emancipation Day

7 Tuesday Academic Programmes Committee 2/22
8 Wednesday
9 Thursday University Research Committee 2/22
10 Friday Emalus Campus Graduation
11 Saturday
12 Sunday
13 Monday Governance and Nominations Committee3/22 Public Holiday (Tuvalu Campus) – Queen’s Birthday
14 Tuesday Teaching Quality Committee 2/22
15 Wednesday
16 Thursday Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee 2/22 Audit & Risk Committee 3/22
17 Friday
18 Saturday
19 Sunday
20 Monday
21 Tuesday
22 Wednesday
23 Thursday Staff Policy Committee 3/22
24 Friday Semester 1: Last day of lectures PDLP: Last Day of Lectures
25 Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday Semester 1: Study Week: 27 June – 03 July
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
JULY
1 Friday PDLP: 2nd Intake Application deadline

Semester 1: Deadline for students to withdraw from courses they do not wish to be assessed in.

Public Holiday (RMI Campus) – Fisherman’s Day

Public Holiday – Ra ō te Ui Ariki ( Cook Islands Campus)

Public Holiday – (Nauru Campus) – RONPHOS Handover

2 Saturday
3 Sunday
4 Monday Semester 1: Examination Period : 04 – 15 July Trimester 2: Late Payment of Fee Period continue: Students who have not paid their fees in full by this date will be liable for Late Payment fee as follows:

· $150.00 (next 4 weeks after 4 July)

· $200.00 thereafter.

Public Holiday (Tonga Campus) – Official Birthday of His Majesty King Tupou VI (Birthday of the Reigning Sovereign)

5 Tuesday
6 Wednesday
7 Thursday Senate 2/22

Public Holiday (Solomon Island Campus) – Independence Day

8 Friday Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – Gospel Day
9 Saturday
10 Sunday
11 Monday Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – National Culture and Senior Citizens Day
12 Tuesday Academic Regulations & Policy Review Committee 2/22 Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – National Day
13 Wednesday Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – Kiribati Special Day
14 Thursday Tender Board 4/22
15 Friday PDLP: Deadline for late registration. Semester 2: Undergraduate & Postgraduate Admission Application Deadline for students new to USP and students resuming after a lapse of six semesters. Undergraduate Applications received after this date will incur a late application fee. Late Post Grad application shall not be permitted.
16 Saturday MID YEAR BREAK : 16 July – 14 August
17 Sunday
18 Monday
19 Tuesday Finance & Resources Committee 3/22
20 Wednesday
21 Thursday Executive Committee 3/22
22 Friday Trimester 2: Lecture end Deadline for students to withdraw from courses for which they do not want to be assessed in
23 Saturday Trimester 2: Study week and Examination period : 23 July– 5 August
24 Sunday
25 Monday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Children’s Day / Journee Mondiale des Enfants
26 Tuesday Innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching Committee 3/22
27 Wednesday
28 Thursday Student Discipline Committee 3/22
29 Friday
30 Saturday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Independence day /Jour de independence
31 Sunday
AUGUST
1 Monday PDLP: Orientation and Lectures Commence Invoice available on SOLS

Public Holiday (Tuvalu Campus) – National Youth Day

Campus Life Committee 3/22

2 Tuesday Academic Programmes Committee 3/22
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday Space Management Committee 3/22 Constitution Day – Cook Islands Campus
5 Friday Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – National Youth & Children’s Day
6 Saturday TRIMESTER 2 BREAK: 6 – 21 August
7 Sunday
8 Monday Semester 2: Academic Advisory week; Registration continues
9 Tuesday Teaching Quality Committee 3/22
10 Wednesday
11 Thursday Audit & Risk Committee 4/22
12 Friday Semester 2: Deadline for registration for all campuses. Students who register for courses after this date will be charged a late registration fee.

PDLP: Deadline for withdrawal of courses with no financial penalty

13 Saturday
14 Sunday
15 Monday Semester 2: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS

Public Holiday ( Emalus Campus) – Assumption Day (Samoa Campus) – Father’s Day

Governance and Nominations Committee 4/22

16 Tuesday Library Advisory Committee 2/22
17 Wednesday
18 Thursday Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee 3/22
19 Friday Semester 2: Deadline for applications for change of programme University Research Committee 3/22

Public Holiday (Nauru Campus) – Ibumin Earoeni Day

20 Saturday
21 Sunday Trimester 3: Deadline for adding courses
22 Monday Trimester 3: lectures commence and Invoices available via SOLS
23 Tuesday
24 Wednesday Pacific TAFE Semester 2: Admission Application Deadline
25 Thursday Staff Policy Committee 4/22
26 Friday Semester 2: Deadline for applications for campus transfer. Deadline for late registration; Deadline for adding of courses for those who registered within the registration period (no fee charged for this cohort). Pacific TAFE Semester 2: Deadline for registration for all campuses. (No late Registrations) PDLP: Deadline for Payment of fees Trimester 3: Last day for withdrawal from trimester 3 courses with no financial penalty
27 Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday Communication and Information Technology Committee 3/22
31 Wednesday
SEPTEMBER
1 Thursday
2 Friday Semester 2: Deadline for dropping courses without incurring any tuition fee. Any courses dropped after this date will incur the full tuition fee

Public Holiday (RMI Campus) – Dri-Jerbal Day

3 Saturday
4 Sunday
5 Monday
6 Tuesday University Scholarship Committee 3/21
7 Wednesday Public Holiday – (Fiji Campus) Constitution Day
8 Thursday Senate 3/22
9 Friday Semester 2 : Deadline for payment of semester 2 fees for all campuses Remuneration and People Committee 3/22
10 Saturday
11 Sunday
12 Monday
13 Tuesday Academic Regulations & Policy Review Committee 3/22
14 Wednesday
15 Thursday Tender Board 5/22
16 Friday Trimester 3: Deadline for Payment of trimester 3 fees
17 Saturday Trimester 3: Late Payment of Fee Period start: Students who have not paid their fees in full will be required to clear all outstanding fees and a Late Payment fee of FJ$125.00 within the 1st four (4) weeks 17 Sept – 16 Oct

Public Holiday (Tonga Campus) – Birthday of His Royal Highness The Crown Prince Tupoto’a- ‘Ulukalala (Birthday of the Heir to the Crown).

18 Sunday
19 Monday
20 Tuesday
21 Wednesday
22 Thursday Audit and Risk Committee 5/22
23 Friday Pacific TAFE Semester 2: Deadline for payment of semester 2 fees for all campuses

Public Holiday (RMI Campus) – Manit Day

Global Engagement Strategy Committee 4/22

24 Saturday
25 Sunday Public Holiday (Nauru Campus) – Hammer DeRoburt Day
26 Monday Innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching Committee 4/22 Public Holiday (Nauru Campus) – Angam Day
27 Tuesday Finance & Resources Committee 4/22

University Scholarship Committee 4/21

28 Wednesday
29 Thursday Executive Committee 4/22 Academic Programmes Committee 4/22
30 Friday Student Discipline Committee 4/22
OCTOBER
1 Saturday MID-SEMESTER BREAK: 01 – 09 October
2 Sunday
3 Monday Laucala Campus Graduation: 03 – 07 October

Public Holiday (Tuvalu Campus) -Tuvalu Day

4 Tuesday Public Holiday (Tuvalu Campus) -Tuvalu Day
5 Wednesday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Constitution Day

Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – World Teachers Day

6 Thursday
7 Friday Public Holiday (Fiji Campus) – Prophet Mohammed’s Birthday
8 Saturday
9 Sunday
10 Monday Public Holiday (Samoa Campus) – White Sunday

Public Holiday (Tuvalu Campus) – National Children’s Day

Public Holiday (Fiji Campus) – Fiji Day

11 Tuesday Space Management Committee 4/22 Teaching Quality Committee 4/22
12 Wednesday
13 Thursday University Research Committee 4/22
14 Friday
15 Saturday
16 Sunday
17 Monday Trimester 3: Late Payment of Fee Period continue: Students who have not paid their fees in full by this date will be liable for Late Payment fee as follows: · $150.00 (next 4 weeks after 17 October) · $200.00 thereafter.
18 Tuesday Communication and Information Technology Committee 4/22
19 Wednesday Public Holiday (Niue Campus) – Niue Constitution Day
20 Thursday PDLD: Last day for Lectures

Public Holiday (Niue Campus) – Constitution Holiday

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee 4/22

21 Friday Solomon Islands Campus Graduation
22 Saturday
23 Sunday
24 Monday Public Holiday (Niue Campus) – Peniamina (Gospel) Day
25 Tuesday Public Holiday (Fiji Campus) – Diwali
26 Wednesday Cook Islands Gospel Day – Cook Islands Campus
27 Thursday
28 Friday Student Discipline Committee 5/22
29 Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
NOVEMBER
1 Tuesday Staff Policy Committee 5/22
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday Senate 4/22
4 Friday Trimester 3: Lectures end Deadline for students to withdrawal from Trimester 3 courses for which they do not want to be assessed in Review Committee 3/22
5 Saturday Trimester 3: Study week and Examination period: 5 – 18 November
6 Sunday
7 Monday PDLP: 2nd Intake Placement Commences

Public Holiday (Tonga Campus) – Constitutional Day (National Day)

Campus Life Committee 4/22

8 Tuesday
9 Wednesday
10 Thursday Council C94
11 Friday Council C94
12 Saturday
13 Sunday
14 Monday
15 Tuesday Library Advisory Committee 3/22
16 Wednesday
17 Thursday Public Holiday ( RMI Campus) – President’s Day
18 Friday Semester 2: Last day of classes
19 Saturday TRIMESTER 3 BREAK
20 Sunday
21 Monday Semester 2: Study Week: 21 – 27 November Tender Board 6/22
22 Tuesday
23 Wednesday
24 Thursday Audit and Risk Committee 6/21
25 Friday Semester 2: Deadline for students to withdraw from courses they do not wish to be assessed in.
26 Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday Semester 2: Examination Period
29 Tuesday Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Unity Day
30 Wednesday
DECEMBER
1 Thursday
2 Friday PDLP: Last day for Placement

Public Holiday (RMI Campus) : Gospel Day

3 Saturday
4 Sunday
5 Monday Public Holiday (Tonga Campus) – Anniversary of the Coronation of H.M. King George Tupou I
6 Tuesday
7 Wednesday
8 Thursday
9 Friday Summer Flexi School Period
10 Saturday
11 Sunday
12 Monday Public Holiday (Kiribati Campus) – Human Rights Day
13 Tuesday
14 Wednesday
15 Thursday
16 Friday
17 Saturday
18 Sunday
19 Monday
20 Tuesday
21 Wednesday
22 Thursday
23 Friday
24 Saturday
25 Sunday Public Holiday (Tonga, RMI, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Samoa & Emalus, Cook Islands Campus) – Christmas Day
26 Monday Public Holiday (Tuvalu, Niue, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Fiji Campus) – Holiday in lieu of Christmas Day (Tonga, RMI, Fiji & Samoa, Cook Islands Campus) – Boxing Day

Public Holiday (Solomon Islands) – National Day of Thanksgiving

Public Holiday (Emalus Campus) – Family day

27 Tuesday Public Holiday (Emalus, Niue, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji Campus) – Holiday in Lieu of Boxing Day
28 Wednesday Public Holiday (Niue Campus) – Christmas Holiday
29 Thursday
30 Friday PDLP: Last day for Lectures
31 Saturday
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