New programme

Callie-Lou Kakwere  Herald Reporter
The Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture has embarked on a new programme which aims to enhance the performance of pupils from primary to secondary school level, an official said yesterday. Outgoing Deputy Minister of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture Lazarus Dokora told The Herald that the Performance Lag Address Programme (PLAP) was critical in addressing learning needs of pupils.

“PLAP is remedial programme which submits pupils to a diagnostic examination.

“This is used to establish their challenges which then provide strategies to help them catch up to where they should be,” he said.
“The programme involves revisiting the syllabus and targeting concepts that have proven persistently difficult for pupils to catch up on.”

The evaluation programme entails assessing the teaching process, teacher and pupil records, resource provisions, supervision, monitoring and evaluation programmes.

“Teachers detect the biggest challenges which students are facing and devise strategies to help the students, so that they can be on the same level with other students,” he said.

The Performance Lag Address Programme (PLAP) was first launched in Manicaland last year in March and it was now being run across the country.