{"id":7779,"date":"2020-04-01T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2020-04-01T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:53:08","slug":"more-than-130000-students-across-the-caribbean-to-benefit-from-virtual-learning-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/more-than-130000-students-across-the-caribbean-to-benefit-from-virtual-learning-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 130,000 Students Across the Caribbean to Benefit from Virtual Learning Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CWCF provides Flow Study Program FREE for ALL students until June 15 in response to COVID-19<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 130,000 kindergarten, primary and secondary school students across the Caribbean will benefit from the Flow Study program FREE of charge from now through June 15.\u00a0 The Cable and Wireless Charitable Foundation (CWCF) in partnership with Flow and One on One Educational Services Limited joined forces to provide access to the comprehensive virtual education platform, which offers a wide array of educational content enabling students to continue their studies at home during the COVID-19 crisis.\u00a0 Students in Antigua &amp; Barbuda, Anguilla, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts &amp; Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent &amp; the Grenadines, Trinidad &amp; Tobago and Turks &amp; Caicos will benefit from this initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Flow Study program powered by One on One is available to all students across the Caribbean regardless of their network operator. Inge Smidts, CEO of C&amp;W Communications, operator of the Flow brand, and Chairperson of the CWCF, said, \u201cDuring these times of crisis we must join forces to ensure that our children, families and communities are supported.\u00a0 Given that parents are now faced with the reality of homeschooling their kids, we wanted to find a way to support them despite which network they subscribe to.\u201d Smidts added, \u201cOur primary concern is to ensure that students across the region continue to have access to the education they deserve and that there is minimal disruption to their learning.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students age 5 to 18 will have access to the curriculum used in their schools.\u00a0 Access is available via Flow Study e-Learning services through the Flow Study mobile apps (Android) and at\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/flowstudy.co\/registration\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/flowstudy.co\/registration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The ability to continue with classes is even more critical for students who are preparing for CSEC and CAPE. For instruction on how to sign up visit: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ia_ZYfY62l0&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ia_ZYfY62l0&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Flow Study offers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 500 video lessons spanning the CSEC curriculum<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Access to digital courses for the K \u2013 8 curriculum<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Question bank and solutions with over 40,000 exam style questions and solutions for 35 subjects\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 years of past paper solutions for over 17 subjects<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital encyclopaedia with over 9,500 digital animations and simulations for four subject areas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virtual science labs with more than 500 digital laboratory simulations for science subjects and skills gap testing for over 30 subjects.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7780\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7780 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Inge-Smidts-CEO-of-CW-Communications-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Inge Smidts - CEO of C&amp;W Communications\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Inge-Smidts-CEO-of-CW-Communications-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Inge-Smidts-CEO-of-CW-Communications-170x170.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inge Smidts &#8211; CEO of C&amp;W Communications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CEO of One on One, Ricardo Allen, commented on the partnership with the CWCF and Flow stating, \u201cEducation is a right and not a privilege.\u00a0 This is an important and strategic partnership for One on One and we are happy that the CWCF has stepped up once again to provide the funds needed to ensure that our students can continue to have access to their education. This is a platform developed by some of the best Caribbean teachers for Caribbean nationals. Our platform has the capacity to facilitate all students to learn at their own pace, anytime, anywhere and from any device. It is in times like these that we are reminded of the importance of having choices for access to education and the value of e-learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hon. Dr. Gale Rigobert, Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development further endorsed the initiative by commenting, \u201cThis pandemic has underscored the value of our efforts to transition from &#8220;chalk and talk&#8221; to various digital modes of instruction. I wish to applaud the demonstrable corporate social responsibility of partners such as FLOW for responding to our request to marry our efforts to ensure continuity in the delivery of instruction at zero or minimal cost to our citizen.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CWCF provides Flow Study Program FREE for ALL students until June 15 in response to COVID-19 Over 130,000 kindergarten, primary and secondary school students across the Caribbean will benefit from the Flow Study program FREE of charge from now through June 15.\u00a0 The Cable and Wireless Charitable Foundation (CWCF) in ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[283,282],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cc","tag-flow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}