Technology Overview

NIS made an early decision to support a single platform due primarily to educational reasons rather than technical issues. This decision has borne fruit in the way in which a single platform supports students – from simple things such as all laptops taking the same time to boot, or acquire networks, to more complex issues addressed by having common software platforms across the school. This has empowered teachers to do what they do best – teach – rather than providing a range of multi-platform solutions to problems that are technical rather than educational.

Although some PC machines continue to be used in school office areas, all student PCs have been removed. In addition, traditional IT labs have been scrapped, even in the Primary school section – IT is driven into the educational programmes, rather than running parallel to these.