<div> <strong>To all GASTPE Participating Schools:</strong><br><br> Please be informed that access to <strong>encoding and LIS validation</strong> of ESC Grantees and Voucher Program Beneficiaries in the IMS and the VMS are currently unavailable. Consequently, <strong>billing facilities are also disabled</strong> at the moment. <br><br> While waiting for these features to become available in the IMS and VMS, schools are advised to encode their learners in the LIS and make use of the available facilities in the IMS and VMS. <br><br> <strong>The following facilities are currently available:</strong> <ul style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 20px;"> <li>Updating of School Profile</li> <li>Uploading of Supporting Documents</li> <li>Updating of Previous School Year's ESC Grantees/VPBs</li> <li>Uploading of E-Signatures of Billing Signatories</li> </ul> Please be guided accordingly. </div>