Alex learners may master dreaded Stem subjects

If all goes according to plan, Alex high school learners could soon become masters of the dreaded science, technology, engineering and mathematics or better known as Stem subjects.

This follows an offer by Sandton City, the Nelson Mandela Square and the affluent community of Sandton of a floor in their Sandton Office Towers that will be fully kitted with the necessary equipment to teach the Stem subjects.

The offer of floor space to be turned into a learning environment was made to the We Love Alexandra Community Makeover Project that is being championed by community builder and philanthropist Linda Twala with the assistance of South Africa Day, a Sandton-based non-profit organisation that seeks to rejuvenate the country’s rundown towns and cities.

Boston City Campus has offered to run and fully equip the office space turned supplementary school with the right equipment to enable the institution to teach the Stem subjects to Alex learners only from Grade 8 and upwards, right up to matric level.

Vice president of the Alex makeover project Lawrence Ruele broke the news of the establishment of a supplementary school to Alex News during a wide-ranging interview around the work of the project.

After initially being given a run-around by what Ruele described as ‘gate-keepers’ at the Gauteng Department of Education, he said Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi, upon hearing of the initiative on a private conversation with him, endorsed the initiative and immediately ordered that a Zoom meeting be set up which led to the signing of a memorandum of understanding with SA Day.

Ruele said the Alex learners would be bussed to and from the supplementary school on a daily basis after their normal school day in the township for these extra lessons that seek to augment what the learners have been taught at their respective schools.

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