Tuesday, April 03, 2007

The following article was published in last weeks Penrith Press, thankyou Thomas for spotting this one. Surprised anyone?

Sports centre gets off mark

29Mar07

A $10 million sports complex will be built at the University of Western Sydney Kingswood.

UWS Vice-Chancellor Professor Janice Reid said the new centre would serve the greater community as well as students and staff.

The centre will include indoor courts for netball, basketball and soccer, as well as a boxing ring, state-of-the-art gym facilities, exercise bikes and child minding facilities.

Outdoor practice nets for cricket, softball, netball and hockey in association with external sports fields are also proposed.

The Federal Government recently announced it will support the new centre with $4 million. Professor Reid said the university was ``delighted'' the Federal Government was making such a significant contribution towards the sports centre.

``I would like to thank the Federal Government and the Member for Lindsay, Jackie Kelly, for their support,'' Professor Reid said.

``This is good news for the university and, in particular, for the people in Penrith who will be able to use a state-of-the-art sports centre.''

The grant was awarded as part of the government's first round of Post Voluntary Student Unionism Transition Fund for Sporting and Recreational Facilities funding.

``This is a remarkable achievement for UWS considering the strong competition for funds and the focus on supporting universities in rural areas,'' Professor Reid said.

The university will now begin planning the new centre which is expected to be completed in 2009.

http://www.penrithpress.com.au/article/2007/03/29/2292_news.html

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes Z block (the art school folks) is going to be part of this new sports complex apparently and they got a 4 million dollar grant from the feds to do this but what about the millions in grant money they got from the community in the first place to put Z block there as an art school...huh sport over art eh ...who would be surprised about that ! So TYPICAL and rather ironic really. We have a funding model adopted by the university that screws over a lot of the areas making them unviable and then they want to turn the university into a gym...just great !Then look at the fantastic achievements of the students as see in the article on this blog ! Go figure.

6:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a disgrace - as if UWS with all its problems needs to put its priority on sport - how about a grant that actually focuses on improving education - art, science, engineering, research...what a waste...comon journalists get out there in the press and critique this appalling set of priorities.

9:15 AM  

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