Don College is a government comprehensive senior secondary school located in Devonport on the north-western coast of Tasmania.

[3] The Don College, designed by architect John Gott,[3]: 21  is an excellent example of brutalist architecture.

The site was covered with Melaleuca, also known locally as paper bark, which was used to construct the boxing for the concrete in the buildings.

Seeing the need to provide for a wider range of students Lee-Archer began to plan for the introduction of Australian Vocational Training Scheme (AVTS) courses.

Another significant change that Lee-Archer had to accommodate was the introduction in the early 1990s of a new Tasmanian Department of Education Staffing Policy.

This coincided with an increase in college teaching load implemented as part of the state government response to the Cresap Report (1990).

[4] The result was a period of rapid staff changes in a college which until then had enjoyed a high degree of stability.

[citation needed] In 2004-5 the secondary curriculum framework was developed in collaboration with all government and non-government schools.

By the end of 2005 Tasmania had, for the first time ever, an inclusive, values based framework for senior secondary education with clearly articulated purposes and outcomes.

[citation needed] In March 2016 the Minister for Education announced that secondary schools in the Devonport area would offer Years 11 and 12 courses from 2017.

[8] This announcement ended Don College's monopoly on state funded senior secondary education in Devonport.

The subjects that are taught at Don College fall within either the curriculum of the Office of Tasmanian Assessment, Standards & Certification (TASC), or Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET).

Upon successful completion of the equivalent of 8 TASC subjects, including literacy, numeracy and ICT, students are awarded the Tasmanian Certificate of Education.