Charles Telfair Institute 

Charles Telfair Institute offers laptops 13 August 2010

As from January 2010, the Charles Telfair Institute offers to all its Curtin and ACCA students Dell or Mac Professional laptops. A scheme launched in collaboration with the Leal Informatics, Microsoft and Adobe, each laptop comes fully equipped with the latest software. "We have always placed and will always do so, much emphasis on the latest technological advances," explains Mrs. Odylle Charoux, Director of Academic Affairs at CTI. "It is very important to us that our students have access to the very latest technology and that they share the same on-line study support as their Australian counterparts - hence the decision to make these laptops available to them as they enrol with us."

Commenting on their latest tool, first-year Curtin students at CTI expressed much delight.

Ashley Beehary said: "The laptop has helped me to have all my notes with me all time as I bring it with me every day. I can access the web anytime - no more waiting for computers to be freed in the lab room or in the library!"

Karuna Chumbit observes: "The laptop helps a lot mainly for the research work and the assignments. It's much easier to get access to Curtin's 'blackboard', their PowerPoint slides, notes and so on, once you have your own laptop."

Alexandre Jauffret adds: "Honestly - without this laptop I don't know how I would do any work because all our courses are on the internet!"

Yut Leen sums up everyone's feeling by concluding: "Our lecturers showed us the strategies/steps to perform well during Semester 1, but we need our laptop as a tool to actually perform these steps."