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THE Sakubva Beithall Examination Coaching Clinic (SBECC) is The Manica Post’s contribution to second-chance education for township youths who are seated at home. Most of them failed their public examinations. Many are in a quest to re-sit examinations.
The Manica Post’s educational materials columnist every week receives enormous responses from teachers and students who find the weekly columns user-friendly and invaluably important. We thank them all for the feedback and promise to do more and better in every sense.
It is this overwhelming response which has inspired your columnist to add value to The Manica Post tuition columns by extending attention from the newspaper to the townships.
The SBECC is a community-based pilot project aimed at bringing professional expertise and much-needed teaching experience to hundreds of youths who are victims of backyard schools and bogus colleges offering dubious extra lessons; sick teaching resembling futile home-based ‘care’.
On Monday, March 2, 2015, the Sakubva Beithall Examination Coaching Clinic (SBECC) will commence full-time lessons in English Language and Mathematics to the youths of Sakubva Township.
This pilot programme is a direct response to two needs: first the overwhelming weekly feedback from teachers, parents and English Language learners who have not missed one copy of The Manica Post benefitting from the columns, and second, the disappointing pass rate which continues to be a bad and embarrassing story to tell.
This pilot programme says we are determined to do something about the masses of youths who exit ‘O’ level without English Language or Mathematics in an education system instantly blocking progress without these two dreaded, seemingly sacred dismally failed subjects.
This programme says we will not get caught up in celebrations of 23 percent achievers and a few whiz-kids at the expense of 75-77 percent who fail examinations every year.
It makes no sense. The opposite must be true, namely paying attention to the majority who fail.
The SBECC says we will do our best to pull these poor youths — these failures from the valley to the top, there to see the realities of growing up through the same lens un-disabled and unhindered by English or Mathematics examination results.
Because of the acute desperation of youths who find this English-Mathematics nightmare standing in their way, they often become victims of backyard schools and colleges operated by dubious experts whose charges are as cheap as their services.
The Sakubva Beithall Examination Coaching Clinic comes to end the woes of youths struggling alone at home or indeed in some private or independent college and offer expert and professional attention able to unlock the jinx of repeated failure.
Through its Winning The English Learning Battle series and others, The Manica Post has for many years exhibited the proven brand of instructive ingenuity and Corrective Tuition needed to make a difference.
Many learners have acknowledged the benefit of these simple fun-filled tuition columns after passing their examinations without ever meeting the teacher-columnist face-to-face, but by following the simple instructions, tips and guidelines in The Manica Post.
If people passed examinations by simply following these columns, imagine being subjected to strict face-to-face encounters with this unique brand of PLAP (Performance Lagging Address Programme). They call it PLAP — we call it Corrective Tuition.
We know all the frontiers that require attention and remedial detail. Our public Interest Teaching and Corrective Tuition concepts add up to an impeccable brand of remedial teaching. Only those who put effort to fail, fail.
The Sakubva Beithall Examination Coaching Clinic has roped in a Mathematics guru to balance the equation of need.
You all know how English and Mathematics almost ritually enjoy being failed together.
The programme offers appropriate and serious computer lessons and courses designed by a young local ICT Bill Gates, beyond the anxious computer brouhaha found almost everywhere today.
We have come to Sakubva to make a serious difference by offering the community this resource centre available even to those who attend school in surrounding schools.
We thank The Manica Post for allowing an idea in the family paper to see the launch of a bigger and better idea for a wider community.
Our mission is to see more youths in the townships pass their English Language and Mathematics and further their education or take up careers of their choices.
Our vision is a Zim-Asset compliant programme of action that will liberate hundreds of youths from the shackles of failure, stagnation, unemployment and idleness.
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