“ What a great call for the requirement to improve through constant development and refinement the "quality" of Moana Oceania / Pacific tertiary education, now thought to be highly globalised in today's world. Given the current state of the art, must we improve both the "quality" and the "quantity" of tertiary education, where both theoretical inquiry and applied research are equally emphasised in the process, with the former taking the lead over the latter, in that logical order of precedence.
In doing so, regional tertiary institutions stand, by way of coordination of both theoretical inquiry and applied research activities across disciplines through active engagement and competition, in order to make both substantial and original contributions to both knowledge production and knowledge application, informed by both creativity and innovation, This includes refined knowledge and skills respectively composed and transmitted in regional cultures and languages. ”