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Canberra College has recently undergone extensive work on its facilities; including upgrades to the Theatre, the Lecture Theatre, the kitchens, and the photography suite. The history suite has been replaced and the gym has a new sports surface.  Also, the media Mac lab has been upgraded, student computers are upgraded frequently, we have data-shows in more than 50% of our classrooms, our technology block is industry standard, our science labs have had been completely re-built.  Our Library has one of largest collections of titles in the ACT - and it's growing.

New Computers at Canberra College

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Over the October school holidays Canberra College received 200 new computers from the First Round of the National Secondary School Computer Fund.

The National Secondary School Computer Fund (the Fund) is a key component of the Australian Government’s $1.2 billion Digital Education Revolution initiative. The Australian Government is investing $1.1 billion over five years (2008–2012) through the Fund, to provide for new or upgraded information and communications technology (ICT) for secondary schools with students in years 9 to 12. 

The Minister for Education, announced on 12 June 2008 that 896 secondary schools across Australia would receive funding for 116,820 computers in the first Round of the Fund.

Through the Fund, grants of $1,000 per computer have been provided.  The objective of Round One funding was to bring those schools with students, in years 9 to 12, with a computer to student ratio of 1:8 or worse to a target ratio of 1:2. 

This is the first instalment of the Australian Government’s $1.1 billion Computer Fund. In Round Two, the Government will be seeking to move all secondary schools to the target computer to student ratio of 1:2. By the end of 2008 funds will be available for all schools to move to a target ratio of 1:2.

We installed 160 computers at Woden campus and 40 computers at Weston campus.  These computers were installed in all faculty areas across the college, and replaced all our computers that were more than 4 years old.

This included:

  • 106 High Spec computers:    Lenovo M57 Quad Core 2.4GHz processors with 4 GB RAM, 160GB hard disks, DVDRW with 19” LCD monitors
  • 76 Lower spec computers:    Lenovo M57 Dual Core 2GHz processors with 2 GB RAM, 160GB hard disks, DVDRW with 19” LCD monitors
  • 12 laptops:      Lenovo R61 Dual Core 2.1GHz processors with 2 GB RAM, 80GB hard disks, DVDRW with 14.1” LCD monitors
  • 6 Imac’s:      IMAC 20 Dual Core, 2GHz processors with 2GB RAM, 250GB hard disks, DVD+R/CD-RW with 20” LCD monitors


This was a massive project involving (on some days) up to 19 staff from Canberra College, Schools IT Support and various sections of INTACT. 

The old computers will be taken by Charity Computers to reconfigure and pass on to needy people.

The other project that happened over the holidays is that the Macintosh lab now has full internet access and students in the Mac lab can access their home drives from the Window server without interfering with the security of either of these networks.

Lyn Mernagh
Network Manager