PCU Household

Va’atele (Council) – the great voyaging canoe, symbolizing the body governs the journey (Samoa)

Uli (Executive Board) – steering of a canoe, symbolizing the body that will steer the University (Fiji)

Taumoana (Chancellor) – the master navigator, the one who leads the journey, symbolizing the leader of the Va’atele (Tuvalu/Kioa)

Tautai (Tautai) – the action figure of any journey that ensures delivery of mandates and the safety of everyone (Tokelau)

Toko (Board of Trustees) – individuals entrusted with the responsibility of being keepers and custodians of community affairs (Rotuma)

Tongo (Board of Appeal) – a resilient ocean plant amid climate change, a sanctuary for young fish, symbolizing a body responsible for refuge and safety of everyone (Kiribati)

Pou tu’uloto (Academic Board) – representing the board that looks after academic excellence, the central pillar that supports and reinforces the quality of the house (Tonga)

Manu Folau (Vice Chancellor) – the great frigate bird that signals an approaching disaster such as a cyclone, signaling preparation, providing vigilance, safety, and resilience (Niue)

Koi’mata-Kiki (Academic Dean) – ‘little seeingeyes’ signaling a person with informed, learned, mature, and visionary abilities with exceptional high calibration ability (Solomon Islands)

Fa’atere (Registrar) – representing a leader of operations with a wider view of things, standing and leading the voyage from the back of the canoe (Maohinui)

Noke (Dean of Research and Strategic
Partnership) – basket of various sizes used by women to carry stuffs, symbolizing researcher carrying baskets of knowledge, traditions, cultures, and approaches. (Fiji)

Kaliloa (Facilitators of Learning) – symbolizes the hand of a woman that gives advice, instruction, telling stories, comfort, sharing, caring, and developing trust and honest relationships, representing facilitators of learning or lecturers
(Tonga)

Bilum (Schools) – a woven bag and basket that serves to carry anything, symbolizing schools as baskets of learning, where learners learn to carry not just academic knowledge but the collective wisdom of mentors, peers, and communities (Papua New Guinea)

Toloa (Students) – a migratory bird representing a person normally engage with the migratory learning cycle of return, search, dive, renew, and fly, a never-ending cycle representing the constant desire of the Toloa for a deep inquiry dive to learn to probe, inquire, transition, and rejuvenate (Samoa).

Poina (Centre) – belonging to the same root or a centre point of its surroundings, symbolizing not only belonging, but also centres as responsible for nurturing and developing roots that could germinate new life, new ideas, and new development (Solomon Islands)

Fa’area (Institute) – a place for gathering together to sing, meet, do awareness on issues or deal with issues within the community, symbolizing space for communities gathering, innovate ideas, and address issues that affect communities (Vanuatu)

Manbruk (Director) – a bird with a crown with great power and agility, a strategist, good in adapting to surrounding circumstances (West Papua)

Tauranga (Campus and regional delivery centre)
– hub or habitant and space or place of learning of all sorts (Cook Islands)

Vanua (Communities) – includes the people, the land, the sea, the skies, and how all living creatures, including the spirits of ancestors, are related to each other and responsible for each other (Fiji)

Kumula’au (Partners/Partnership) – kumu
means teacher and lā’au means plant, the idea of partnering is like a tree – kumulā’au – representing shared purpose that can result in creating a forest for birds, animals, and also invites rain (Hawaii)

Puna’oa (Library) – a source that springs forth wealth, a natural spring that carries the waters from the mountain waterfalls to the farthest reaches of the island, symbolizing springs from different directions and multiple fonts to enrich this source for learning that is not for one person or community, but for multiple communities, cultures, races, and needs (Samoa)

Hokata (Human Resource) – meaning ‘to see through’, a metaphor for transparency & accountability, represented by a money of a circular object made from clamshell with a circular opening on the inner part (Solomon Islands)

Matazai (Finance) – light-ray or beam that sees through, symbolizing finance as a display of exceptional foresightedness, strength enduring & animated ability to see beyond (Solomon Is)

Davui (Communications and Marketing) – a conch shell signaling and communicating to the community an event (Fiji)

Te Rama (Alumni) – the outrigger boom of a canoe symbolizing alumni to provide balance and stability to the institution to prevent the canoe
from capsizing (Kiribati)

Whakahaere (Operation) – to organise, cause to go, conduct, operate, lead, execute, direct, manage, control, administer, institute, implement,
and perform (Maori)

Kilaak (Committee) – ‘being tied down by a task’ representing commitment to performing a task (Marshall Islands)

Matauranga (Curriculum) – holistic learning inclusive of cultures, traditions, values, concepts, philosophies, spiritualities, world views, and
understandings, traversing customary and contemporary systems of knowledge (Maori)

Elesitr (Ceremonial place, open field) – a sacred common and ceremonial space for communities’ rituals or ceremonies for mutual exchange (Kanaki, New Caledonia)

Sevā (Service) – the concept of selfless service that is performed without any exception of reward for performing it (Hinduism and Sikhism)

Langovaka (Advisory) – lango are logs put underneath the vaka (canoes) to prop up, support, side with, or guard the canoe to roll down to enter the sea or shore, symbolizing an advisory role to prop up and give support and advice in the operation (Tonga)