Western Sydney College has showcased its new $340 million high-rise Bankstown Metropolis campus with an official celebration attended by Federal Minister for Schooling, the Hon Jason Clare MP forward of the campus commencing educating in early 2023.
Developed in partnership with Walker Company, the College’s latest vertical campus will drive financial progress and open greater schooling and employment alternatives for Australia’s fastest-growing area.
With capability for as much as 10,000 college students and 1,000 workers, the Bankstown Metropolis campus will ship roughly $140 million a 12 months in further financial uplift to Canterbury-Bankstown and Western Sydney. It has been awarded a 6-Star Inexperienced Star design score, representing ‘World Management’ in environmentally sustainable constructing practices.
Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Barney Glover AO, mentioned the Bankstown Metropolis campus is a major achievement that delivers constructive outcomes for the entire group.
“Western Sydney College is proud to associate with Walker Company to ship transformational infrastructure within the coronary heart of the area’s key progress centres, serving to to reinvent our cities’ public areas the place individuals collect to work, stay, socialise and study,” mentioned Professor Glover.
“The Bankstown Metropolis campus is an thrilling subsequent chapter that intensifies the College’s long-standing academic dedication to Bankstown and Milperra. It permits us to proceed to enhance greater schooling fairness and entry, notably for these from decrease socio-economic backgrounds and those that are the primary of their household to attend college, and to spice up commencement charges and employment outcomes for the individuals of south-west Sydney for generations to come back.”
Federal Minister for Schooling, the Hon Jason Clare MP mentioned: “This was once a council automotive park. Now it will likely be a college campus residence to 10,000 college students. That is the type of change I wish to see extra of in Western Sydney.”
Walker Company Govt Chairman, Lang Walker AO mentioned Walker and Western Sydney College have created a campus that connects college students with future employment alternatives.
“We’re proud to ship high quality infrastructure within the coronary heart of Bankstown which supplies native households the chance to have their youngsters educated from kindergarten to a college diploma after which onto employment,” mentioned Mr Walker.
“Western Sydney College will ship world class schooling at this campus from 2023 and shall be complemented by 9 ranges of premium industrial workplace area offering a direct pathway to nice careers after commencement.
“The campus and industrial flooring will ship over $140 million a 12 months to the native economic system elevating Bankstown in a thriving Western Sydney.”
The 18-storey, technology-rich campus contains 26,000m² of state-of-the-art amenities. With 9 flooring devoted to college educating, studying and analysis, it has a specific give attention to the wants of fast-growing Canterbury-Bankstown and south-west Sydney, in areas comparable to well being, superior manufacturing for small and medium enterprises, and schooling.
Undergraduate and postgraduate programs in fields comparable to trainer schooling, psychology, arts and humanities, enterprise, accounting, IT and non-clinical well being areas, in addition to the College’s Faculty pathway packages, shall be provided on the Bankstown Metropolis campus.
Importantly, work built-in studying will give college students hands-on studying alternatives with native enterprise and trade, serving to to strengthen their expertise and improve their employability. The College’s collaborative enterprise and analysis partnerships, and robust trade, group and enterprise linkages may even actively work to deal with a few of the most urgent challenges going through the native area.
Bankstown Metropolis campus is a part of the College’s ‘Western Development’ technique – an bold program that’s co-creating cities and transformative academic infrastructure throughout Western Sydney, in partnership with trade and authorities.
