BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Apr. 25.2018 – MOBILE giant FLOW, Monday (Apr. 23) launched the new FLOW Study which is geared towards assisting fifth form students preparing for the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate exams.
The FLOW Study project will provide students with a 24-hour on demand tutoring service with examination papers from the last nine years.
The FLOW Study project forms part of a direct response from the company to the ravages left by Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the region and the education sector in many islands.
The initiative will assist students who lost textbooks and other educational materials during the storms.
At a simple but significant ceremony at the Irish Town Primary School, FLOW’s Managing Director, David Lake told the gathering that the educational project comprises FLOW Study for Classroom, FLOW Study Live, FLOW Study Workshop, and FLOW Study Past Manuals.
While thanking Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Vincent Hodge, Lake revealed that St. Kitts and Nevis was not in line to have the service this year.
But after a number of discussions, they were able to have some of the tools opened to students and teachers in the federation.
Lake described the instrument as the “best examination tool” to be implemented in the federation in years.
“I am happy that some one thousand past paper manuals have been made available to the Ministry of Education for distribution to the various secondary schools across St. Kitts and Nevis for students preparing to sit those overseas exams,"Lake said.
Access to the website is free, according to Lake, for students between April 9 to June 30 at www.flowstudy.co
The Managing Director believes that FLOW Study will improve the student’s chances at their CAPE and CSEC examinations.
Education Minister, Hon. Shawn Richards urged students to use the study package being made available to them.
He said that much has changed with the use of technology but the layout of the classrooms in the federation have not.
Against that backdrop, he pointed out that students are now being given an opportunity to have technology now integrate in a more practical way with classroom learning instructions.
The Minister noted that students are no longer confined to a class for a lecture session, but they are now taking the classroom on the go.
“It can’t be that in the classroom we are preparing you for the world, but yet in the very same classroom, we are not preparing you for technology which is now used within the world. However, I say to you: that you can only get the benefits out of it if you utilize it [app.] and utilize it effectively.”
The programmes has thus far been launched in Anguilla, Dominica and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
