Page 2258 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 4 August 2021
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Industry Advisory Group to identify where the most critical skills gaps are and come up with tailored plans to close them; and supporting CIT to strengthen, adapt and update its offerings to ensure these are well aligned with industry needs.
The new national skills agreement with the commonwealth will have a substantial impact on our ability to invest in and grow VET in Canberra. We will continue to argue for the best deal possible from our colleagues on the hill. As we move into the post-COVID recovery period, Canberra’s skills sector will be essential to ensure that we have a strong and highly skilled workforce to keep growing and diversifying our economy.
This is the context that the new CIT campus Woden sits within. It will deliver a new home for the institute and make a major contribution to the revitalisation of Woden. Just as importantly, it is an investment in strengthening our local skills sector and ensuring that we are bringing the best offerings to bear for VET students in the years supporting our broader economy.
The Woden campus will ensure CIT remains a provider of choice and an agile partner to meet industry, business and community needs by delivering quality vocational education and training for the jobs of the future. The campus’s smart campus platform and its integration with the CIT cloud campus will support these objectives. The new campus will complement CIT’s existing training facilities and networks at Fyshwick, Bruce, Gungahlin and Tuggeranong and help drive the transition to new ways of delivering its courses through cloud-based and digital learning.
Our vision for CIT Woden is a world-leading educational campus, facilitated through digitally enabled learning and innovation spaces. It will provide the future skills and training opportunities required to meet the growing demands of industry and the ACT community. This unique development alongside an enhanced transportation hub will activate the Woden town centre precinct, enabling the transformation of CIT to further support the ACT’s reputation as the knowledge capital of Australia.
The new flagship campus for CIT at Woden will be home to around 6,500 students and is planned to open for classes in 2025. Students who attend the CIT campus in Woden will enjoy a dynamic educational experience, from digitally enabled learning spaces to collaboration opportunities with local industry and more.
We are ambitious about what this project can do for CIT, for the Woden town centre and for the broader community. I have been very clear with the architects from the beginning and during the development of the reference design, and to the potential future delivery partners, that this project is seeking to showcase the very best in sustainable building and design for a major public facility.
The ACT government is seeking architectural excellence and showcasing sustainable design in the delivery of the new campus, an exemplar for building and sustainable urban design in a public facility. In particular, we are keen to see an extensive rooftop garden showcased with good solar access to maximise the benefits to campus users while also achieving the ACT government’s other sustainability aspirations.
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