d) Programme 4: Vocational and Continuing Education and Training (VCET) The purpose of this programme was to plan, develop, evaluate, monitor and maintain national policy, programmes and systems for vocational and continuing education and training, including FET colleges and post literacy Adult Education. Within this programme, and for the 2011/12 financial year, the Department reported the following: . The community education and training centres and the conversion of FET Colleges into VCET Institutions had been gazetted as delivery institutions for the VCET sector. . The National Senior Certificate for Adults was published for public comment. . A Ministerial Task Team was established to review the NCV qualifications at levels 2 - 4. . The Internal Continuous Assessment (ICASS) guidelines were developed to strengthen the NCV delivery. . Access into FET colleges was significantly expanded through the R1.270 billion bursary allocation awarded to 165 273 students enrolled in state-subsidized programmes. . The Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) assumed the role of quality assurance for N4 - N6, including the National Diploma in Report 191. . Nine National Examination cycles were held (seven were for the FET College sector, and two for AET). . The success rates based on November 2011 results showed a dramatic improvement in success rates averaging 40% across levels . The identification of 28 illegally operating private colleges and the arrest of their managers. . Challenges of the programme included; capacity constraints in the areas of on-site security, staff allocation and budget allocation with regard to the examination function, delays in securing the National Treasury Technical Assistance Unit to provide technical expertise in scoping and supporting the move of the provincial VCET functions, budgets and personnel to the Department and continued operation of unregistered private institutions