Cape Town’s top-performing learners in the Engen Maths and Science School programme.
Cape Town - The top-performing Cape Town learners who excelled in the Engen Maths and Science School (EMSS) were celebrated at the weekend.
An awards ceremony was held for the learners who completed their final year at the CPUT District Six campus on Saturday.
The programme, which has been running for over 35 years, provides free supplementary education to more than 1 500 learners annually at 10 of its centres across the country.
The two EMSS centres in Cape Town offer supplementary maths, science and English classes to Grades 10 to 12 learners every Saturday at CPUT and Manzomthombo Secondary School.
Its other centres are located in the Eastern Cape, Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal.
The top-performing learners in Cape Town were:
Mhlauli, currently studying for a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) degree at UCT with the hopes of becoming a neurosurgeon, said: “They thoroughly reinforced topics that were covered in class during the week. This provided me with a platform to not only gain more information on the subject matter, but has allowed me to ask things I didn’t understand during the week. This kind of consolidation inflated my results.”
Secondary schools in the surrounding areas were feeder schools to EMSS centres, with teachers from these schools recommending learners to be a part of the programme.
Olwethu Mdabula, from Engen, said: “Maths, science and English are gateway subjects that are considered critical in addressing the country’s technical and engineering skills shortage as well as spurring economic growth and development.”
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