Aims and Mission

Technology develops rapidly. The use of computers and Information Technology in the modern world, in every part of society, is so common as to be inescapable and unavoidable. Students in schools must learn to use IT as a tool, as part of their everyday lives in the future. By the time they are in their early twenties, the technology we deem as state of the art today will probably be outmoded it is true but students who have a good grounding, a solid basis, in today’s technology will find it much easier to cope with whatever changes and improvements are on the way.

Skills with and understanding of computer and information technology will undoubtedly play a part in their success in the coming years when they are part of the workforce, lack of such skills will undoubtedly be part of the reason for their failure. With these important facts in mind, we have chosen the following aims to be central to our service to the students:

• develop computer literacy together with an understanding of the concepts of computer systems and Information Technology
  
• provide an appreciation of the trends in the contemporary development of Information Technology;
  
• to demonstrate and help develop problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills and show how these may apply to students’ daily lives and learning;
  
• cultivate positive attitudes towards the rapidly-changing technological basis of modern society and its widespread use of computers.