CIT Woden - Providing contemporary vocational education and training facilities
CIT Woden will be a competitive, world-class educational facility, delivering excellence in education and learning outcomes. It will support the ACT’s economic growth and diversity, and prepare Canberrans with the skills and training required for tomorrow’s careers.
CIT has an impressive 90-year history - providing excellence in technical and further education to students from the ACT and surrounding areas.
CIT’s training and assessment methods continue to evolve to best equip work-ready graduates.
CIT Woden will be a technology skills delivery precinct, with a strong focus on IT, cyber security, business and hospitality skills and training opportunities required to meet the growing demands of industry and the ACT community.
The new facility will incorporate smart, sustainable campus design and current technology to offer courses that meet the vocational education and training requirements of a shifting ACT workforce. Features will include:
- specialist learning environments;
- state-of-the-art cyber training and digital learning spaces;
- a training restaurant with commercial kitchen;
- collaboration and group-work learning spaces;
- function rooms, activated common areas and greenspace; and
- maker spaces, incubator hubs and spaces for collaboration with industry and local business.
It is expected that 6,500 students will use CIT Woden each year, activating the area, and stimulating the local economy.
Digitally-enabled learning spaces
CIT is developing ‘Cloud Campus’ information and communications technology (ICT) for use across all of their campuses. The ‘Cloud Campus’ aims to meet the changing needs of CIT’s students and industry partners as technology advances.
The new Woden campus will also incorporate ‘Smart Campus’ technology, linking a digitally-enabled CIT building with custom digital learning management systems, to improve operational efficiency, enhance student and teacher outcomes as well as drive sustainable design efficiencies.
Examples of this could include virtual/augmented reality learning, gamification, blended-learning models and digitisation of courses.
Connections to industry
The new campus will feature applied research, industry incubators and maker spaces where students can come together, learn, share, explore and collaborate with local industry.
Locating CIT within close proximity to the growing Woden and Phillip business districts has the potential to increase the opportunities for students to undertake local job training during their study.
The provision of incubators and maker spaces will encourage industry stakeholders to collaborate with students during their learning journey. This in turn will deliver enhanced employment pathways, with more job-ready skilled employees and better educational and student outcomes.
Completing other educational investments
The CIT Campus - Woden project offers a unique opportunity to design and build a new purpose-built mixed-use educational campus in a central, rapidly renewing part of Canberra. It will complement other educational infrastructure investments in Canberra.
The Woden campus will enhance Canberra’s vocational education and training network, operating alongside existing CIT campuses in Fyshwick, Bruce, Gungahlin, Tuggeranong and a continued presence in the city.
The CIT Woden investment is being made in the context of other significant educational infrastructure investments being made or facilitated by the ACT Government. A University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra City campus will be constructed in Reid, with its campus development expected to roll-out over a number of years.
The ACT Government is also making significant investments in new and improved local schools along with tertiary upgrades which will complement the CIT Woden offerings.
Complementary community and commercial facilities
CIT Campus - Woden will bring other potential opportunities for community and commercial facilities that will benefit students, staff, commuters and the wider community.
Commercial facilities such as food and beverage, retail and other services will be incorporated into the new precinct.
As we progress the design development for the project, final options will be presented for the local and wider community to provide feedback.
