Western Sydney is reaping the rewards of a virtuous cycle of knowledge generation, jobs and wealth, with many educational institutions flocking to the area.
, chairwoman of the Western Parklands City Authority, says there is no doubt that one of the region’s greatest strengths is its multiculturalism, with one in every two people speaking a language other than English, compared to one in five in the rest of the country.
Alongside WSU are the University of Sydney; Swinburne University; University of New England; University of New South Wales; Charles Sturt University; and Sydney Graduate School of Management. “We see it as our civic mission to educate the people of Western Sydney. And if we are to lift the level of higher education attainment, there is no better way than to catalyse the capacity of other institutions. And then WSU can continue to focus on our main game, which is lifting educational attainment of the most disadvantaged groups.”“Our first instinct was it’s a competitive presence.
Unlike UNSW and ACU, the University of Sydney’s presence in the area was established over 45 years ago. Its vast research and human capital have been the driving force behind the world-class biomedical and health services precinct in and around Westmead Hospital. The precinct works on a symbiotic relationship between research, theory and practice. Professional medical and health staff, who are jointly employed by the hospital and the university, work across both systems — teaching, researching and conducting their formal practice. Patients benefit from world-leading researcher and technologies, as do students who learn from the best while getting real-world experience in the most sophisticated facilities.
But it is the future that she is most excited by — one that is a highly sophisticated super-information hub that will lead the next wave of information technologies, including quantum computing, in which both the universities of Sydney and NSW are leading the world.
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