Students tutor teenagers in Belgium’s Brabant wallon region
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In seven communities within Brabant wallon, a region of Belgium, university students are providing academic support to secondary school students.
The program, called CQFD (“ce qu'il fallait démontrer”), offers two-hour tutoring sessions each Saturday from September to May. Marie-Garance, Anuska, and Zoi, students studying engineering and computer science, are among the tutors helping teenagers review schoolwork. The nonprofit organisation La Chaloupe runs CQFD with funding from local municipalities and the European Social Fund.
These municipalities pay the tutors, and the European Social Fund supports a coordinator position. The program accepts students from the first year of secondary school through their final year, and families from outside the seven participating municipalities can join if space allows. Local officials see CQFD as a way to address a consistently average level of academic performance among French-speaking students in Belgium, as shown by PISA surveys.
The town of Lasne has offered the program for four years, believing it is important to support students who are struggling and prevent them from becoming discouraged. At six euros per hour, and with financial assistance available, the program aims to be affordable for all families. La Chaloupe currently supports between 30 and 40 students across the seven municipalities each year.
