To this end, the University has thousands of workstations and hundreds of servers distributed in departments and connected by an extensive network. No single part of the University is responsible for the whole IT environment. Centrally, the Information Division takes care of University-wide infrastructure and programs. These people all work together to keep the computers and networks running. A lot of these laboratories are timetabled for class use, so you will need to check with the faculty or department who runs the lab as to its availability.
Many postgraduates have access to a computer in their own department.
Practically all computers in the University are part of the University Network, which is a part of the internet. There's more information on computer labs in Chapter 3 . In areas like Engineering and especially Computer Science, Unix computers are often used. Practically all of the University's computers are on local area networks, which are in turn part of the University Network which is part of the internet. You can, and should, get a University email account, and you have access to the web from student computing laboratories.