Released 11/08/2020
The ACT Government is opening a new Future Skills Academy in the north of Canberra, building on the model already established with Mungga-iri Jingee in Tuggeranong.
The new Academy of Future Skills hub will be named 'Dhawura Ngadjung'—Ngunnawal words meaning earth and water. Together with Mungga-iri Jingee, meaning touch the stars, the two Academies recognise that Australia was and is Aboriginal land.
This new hub for the Academy, based at the University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra, forms part of a $5.7 million ACT Government 2018-19 Budget commitment to build on Canberra's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) capability and make these subjects more accessible to all students.
The Academy provides access to high quality facilities where both students and teachers can develop skills that are transferrable to many of the fastest growing occupations.
The ACT Government's commitment to building skills for future jobs is evident in this investment of a skills based learning space, as well as in specialist teachers who work from the Academy and in schools all over Canberra.
The Future Skills Academy is a key deliverable of the Future of Education Strategy, which recognises students as individuals and emphasises the creation of learning environments with students at the centre as well as the importance of learning for future jobs that don't yet exist.
This new facility and the work across these important education subjects supports students in the ACT to tread their own path based on their developing interests, knowledge and skills.
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Yvette Berry, MLA | Media Releases