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Campus Facilities

 

Centre for Independent Language Learning

 

The Centre for Independent Language Learning (CILL), with good facilities and rich learning resources, is a place for enhancing the learning of English, Chinese and Putonghua and providing students with opportunities to develop their own responsibility, initiative, confidence and independence in self-access language learning.
 

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Learning Resources Centres

 

VTC Learning Resources Centres provide services in the IVE Campuses, Hong Kong Design Institute and Youth Colleges. Each Centre provides a multimedia learning resources environment conducive to study, research and leisure reading. The library services include loans of materials, reference, photocopying, inter-campus library loans and library user education. The library collection in each Learning Resources Centre ranges from 40,000 to 90,000 volumes catering for the needs of the users. In addition to books, journals and audio-visual materials, the Learning Resources Centres also subscribe to electronic databases to enable students to have access to the latest information worldwide.

Learning Resources Centres
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Information Technology Services

 

In order to enhance teaching and learning effectiveness and to ensure that our students can keep pace with IT to meet rapid changes and new challenges in the future, the campuses provide the following IT services:

 

  • -  Web-based Teaching and Learning Service – the WebCT
    -  Email Service
    -  Mobile Computing Service
    -  Student Web-based Services
    -  Web-based Video Conferencing Service
    -  Networking Services
    -  Wireless LAN Service Outside VTC Premises
    -  Professional Software Provision
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nowTV Project

 

To create a more visible and audible language learning environment in VTC campuses, 17 sites have subscribed to either nowTV or Cable TV channels.  LCD TVs were installed in different locations including canteen, LRC, library, student common area and CILL. Students are exposed to English or Putonghua programmes in a relaxing environment. They can also participate in the related theme-based language activities and inter-campus competitions that are organised each semester.

 
 

Other Facilities

 

The campuses / centres are equipped with various kinds of sports facilities such as tennis courts, basketball courts, swimming pools, gyms, etc. which enable students to relax and develop their interests. To cater for the teaching needs of respective courses, up-to-date and trade-specific facilities are also provided for students to help them acquire the relevant professional skills.