In preparation for Thursday's orientation, I got the chance to visit our other UTS campus, the Kuring-Gai campus ! For those who don't know, UTS is comprised of two campuses. There's one in Broadway (tall building that can be seen from Central), and there's Kuring-gai. My thoughts on the campus? While it may be in the middle of no where, it is in fact a lovely, serene campus. I love the green carpet they have throughout the main buildings; it's like a golf course ! The atmosphere there kind of reminds you of a retreat since it's surrounded by a lot of flora, but that just means the campus looks fantastic during the summer weather.
Such a shame that there will be major changes done to the campus. For those who are incognizant to the situation, the Federal Government states that a university must operate sustainably or implement strategies that ensure sustainability in the long-term. Unfortunately for the Kuring-gai campus, it is no longer recognized as sustainable and thus changes will be made. What changes do I speak of? From what I know, there are plans to rezone the land to other businesses.
Enrollments in the Kuring-gai campus have in fact been declicing due to students preferring a more centralized location pertaining to the CBD. Don't fret though if you're going to be studying at Kuring-gai. (Pfft .. yeah like any Kuring-gai students would be reading this). If you start your course at Kuring-gai, you WILL finish your course at Kuring-gai.
Moreso there are major differences that separate Kuring-gai from the City campus, and these differences are why I think the rezoning application was sent to the Federal Government in the first place. A major difference is the services provided to students. Kuring-gai offers less services; it has no doctor, no IT support center, no wireless internet, and other stuff which I have since forgotten.
On the same token, Kuring-gai has stuff that the city campus does not carry. It has an actual soccer field, indoor basketball court, tennis court and large training facility. Now that I think about it, Kuring-gai has a lot more sporting facilities than the city campus. They should just keep Kuring-gai the way it is, and turn it into the UTS sport campus !
If I had one complaint about the Kuring-gai campus, it would be the lack of escalators. Correct me if I'm wrong people, but in my time there I didn't see one escalator. We all got tired easily by the amount of stairs we had to walk. Then again we did do a lot of touring and hunting throughout the campus.
Such a shame that there will be major changes done to the campus. For those who are incognizant to the situation, the Federal Government states that a university must operate sustainably or implement strategies that ensure sustainability in the long-term. Unfortunately for the Kuring-gai campus, it is no longer recognized as sustainable and thus changes will be made. What changes do I speak of? From what I know, there are plans to rezone the land to other businesses.
Enrollments in the Kuring-gai campus have in fact been declicing due to students preferring a more centralized location pertaining to the CBD. Don't fret though if you're going to be studying at Kuring-gai. (Pfft .. yeah like any Kuring-gai students would be reading this). If you start your course at Kuring-gai, you WILL finish your course at Kuring-gai.
Moreso there are major differences that separate Kuring-gai from the City campus, and these differences are why I think the rezoning application was sent to the Federal Government in the first place. A major difference is the services provided to students. Kuring-gai offers less services; it has no doctor, no IT support center, no wireless internet, and other stuff which I have since forgotten.
On the same token, Kuring-gai has stuff that the city campus does not carry. It has an actual soccer field, indoor basketball court, tennis court and large training facility. Now that I think about it, Kuring-gai has a lot more sporting facilities than the city campus. They should just keep Kuring-gai the way it is, and turn it into the UTS sport campus !
If I had one complaint about the Kuring-gai campus, it would be the lack of escalators. Correct me if I'm wrong people, but in my time there I didn't see one escalator. We all got tired easily by the amount of stairs we had to walk. Then again we did do a lot of touring and hunting throughout the campus.
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Wow, those differences are really interesting. I wanted to take an Events subject which they only offered at Kuringai, but, it was from 5-8 and that's way too late (especially since I have to catch a train back to the Riff).
I wish the city campus had what Kuringai has.
Another positive about Kuring-gai is that the library is in the heart of the campus, therefore it is easily reachable from any building, unlike the city campus where your walk to the library depends on which building you're coming from. Walking to the library from B10 is such a biatch !
btw Nicole, in case you didn't know, the Vice Chancellor is pushing for a UTS swimming pool. =)
hahaha... YOU complaining about lack of escalators??? if i remember correctly you're the guy who prefers to always use the stairs at central 'cos escalators are 'lazy' lol. I love your 10 point greeting routine in the other post btw... I expect to receive the same kind of artificial attention when we all start back on the 23rd home boy.
Hey the time I said that at Central, we were walking 'down' stairs ! There's a huge difference in walking down stairs and walking up stairs !
They're renovating the city campus. Apparently, there's going to be a mini library in Bld 2.
OOH a pool! Now that's pretty awesome. They should have it on the roof of the tower building (lol jk).
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