Sarojini Pillay is a Fijian academic of

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n descent. In the second week of February 2006, Pillay, a former Registrar of the University of the South Pacific (USP), was appointed as the first Registrar of the newly founded University of Fiji, scheduled to take up her duties on 13 March. Pillay is a graduate of the Central Michigan University in the

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, the University of Madras in India, and the

Fiji School of Agriculture Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji cons ...

. She first became Registrar of the USP in 1991, and after her retirement from this position she was approached by the new university to be its first Registrar.

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