 Still, with education recognizing that students have lost a significant amount of instruction time as a result of the closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Education, Innovation and Generations is channeling efforts into ensuring that students are able to make up for lost time. As such, the department is currently working on an academic recovery program. Dawson Ragananan is the Deputy Chief Education Officer. It is a program that is going to look at the various gaps. It is going to look at the various weaknesses and so that we can ensure that we are able to meet and that we're able to put measures in place so that we can meet the needs of the students. The thing about it is, it is starting off right now, but we are encouraging and we are going to be working with our teachers and we're looking at the extent to which we can provide special programs for our students, especially for the online modality, looking at ways in which we can provide experiences for our students and we're talking about extra experiences, not just in the classroom, but when they leave the classroom, we want to provide them with those opportunities. The Deputy Chief Education Officer indicated that provisions will be made for any child seeking additional lessons at the schools. More protocols here short will be followed as the safety and well-being of students come first. Ragananan explained that the lessons will enable students to catch up with the lost instruction. We are working if our Camdo officers, these are our curriculum officers, to find ways to bridge that gap because we recognize that our students have lost. Again we're looking at the examinations and again looking at the examinations, looking at what the students have done and how the examinations would match the instruction in the classroom. So that is always important because that determines the validity of the examinations. So we will continue to work with them and ensure that we can meet the expectations. Deputy Chief Education Officer Dawson Ragananan