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Administration
Centre The Administration
Centre has offices for lecturers, deans and deputy deans, student advisers, President,
CEO, and administrative staff. It also has a Student Service Counter where friendly staff
persons meet and help students and visitors to the College.
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Computer
Laboratories The IPC computing
environment is state of the art. Via a radio network, students may access the Internet and
a student server on their own computers from classrooms, the Dining Hall, their rooms in
the Halls of Residence, and even from the lawns on which they relax while enjoying the sun
- anywhere on campus. Computer laboratories with the newest equipment, such as more than
140 iMac computers, are available for students' use too. Computing is considered a vital
part of education at IPC.
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Dining
Hall As IPC is a residential
college, the Dining Hall provides three meals a day every day. The food served there
includes a wide range of New Zealand and Asian cuisine to the satisfaction of students and
staff from various countries, as well as visitors from the local community.
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Halls
of Residence IPC has eight
Halls of Residence on campus, and two downtown. Each Hall has private, single bedrooms
which are centrally heated and carpeted, a common room (with Sky cable TV and video),
kitchenette, and laundry with washing machines and dryers.
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Health
Clinic IPC has a contracted
doctor and nurses who run the IPC Health Clinic and deal with students' health concerns or
medical emergencies on campus during the week. Weekend emergencies are dealt with by
Residential Supervisors who live in the Halls of Residence.
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Library The library is spacious and well-appointed with splendid
views of the ranges. It is building on a collection of 30,000 volumes and subscribes to
approximately 300 journals and magazines, 18 newspapers in English, Chinese and Japanese.
Newspapers in other languages are available online. The IPC collection of books on
international relations, environmental studies, and language teaching are among the
strongest in the country. There are 12 computers available for students, 6 for the library
catalogue and 6 for access to the Internet and electronic databases. A specialised
language development collection is available for students to develop their language
skills, which includes books' tapes, references, videos (documentaries and contemporary
films with accompanying scripts), CDs, and DVDs.
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Media
Centre The Octagon Room of
the Media Centre was intentionally made compact (capacity: 80 people), so that speakers
and audience can be close during presentations. IPC regularly hosts special seminars with
guest speakers invited from academic, business, and political fields, etc., including such
leading figures as ambassadors to New Zealand. For functions for a larger number of
people, the Senior Common Room in the Administration Centre and the Recreation Centre are
used.
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Recreation
Centre The Recreation Centre
consists of a large weights room, a Dojo (a room for martial arts and dance), changing
rooms with showers, and a gymnasium that caters for various indoor sports and events.
There are full facilities for disabled access and use of the Centre. Students also have
free access to the tennis courts.
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Seminar
Blocks Most of the classrooms
in the Seminar Blocks accommodate less than 30 people, so that lecturers can stay close to
students and give them individual attention during classes. Each classroom is equipped
with visual presentation facilities to enhance students' understanding. Learning, however,
does not take place only in classrooms - at IPC, lecturers often take students out of
classrooms on field trips so that they can learn in a more active manner in the real
environment.
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