is there evidence on which we could draw to know what might help because the pandemic might be a new experience globally but lots of countries have crises in delivering education where there are wars, natural disasters, on an annual basis or some places just have to deal with these things like geography, one thinks of the outback in australia, other things we could draw on? there is a lot of evidence but the main thing we need to focus on is how we can use the best evidence of what works to improve young people's education, particularly to close the gap between the most disadvantaged and the rest. even before the pandemic, that gap was already widening so, jules is correct,