Two Rhodes University graduates are back in Grahamstown to help learners learn better. The Juno Study Course was created by Paul Tosio and pioneered by Tosio and Craig Webber in 2000 while they were both still studying at Rhodes.
Two Rhodes University graduates are back in Grahamstown to help learners learn better. The Juno Study Course was created by Paul Tosio and pioneered by Tosio and Craig Webber in 2000 while they were both still studying at Rhodes.
Tosio and Webber are in Grahamstown working with local schools St Andrew’s College, Kingswood College and DSG. They also teach university students and adult learners.
“We’re going to be running a number of courses in Grahamstown over the next month or so,” says Tosio. Tosio started researching academic skills after being dissatisfied with his mediocre results in matric. Tosio studied psychology at Rhodes and read widely about learning methods.
“From these new sources I started to understand certain fundamentals of how the human mind works. I then took these principles and crafted them into workable techniques that I applied to improve my own academic results,” says Tosio.
Tosio’s first student was Webber, his current business partner. Webber studied law and obtained decent results, but after training with Tosio his marks improved dramatically, and he graduated with distinction.
Both Tosio and Webber went on to study at Oxford. They are now based in Cape Town where they run the Juno Study Course.
Tosio says the course incorporates speed reading and memory skills, how to focus and relax and how to write essays.
The course has been taught to students at more than 100 institutions, including Oxford, Stanford and Harvard.
The course explores “ways of converting abstract thoughts into things you can picture,” says Tosio. He says students often become intimidated by work and put up a mental block. Webber says work should be put in one’s own words without losing the meaning.
Tosio says the myth that one only uses 10% of one’s brain is incorrect. “More than half of your brain matter is used for visual memory,” he says.
The Juno Study Course aims to show learners how to best access their visual memory. For more information visit their website at www.junostudycourse. com or email them at info@junostudycourse.com or phone 076 279 8125.
