The Committee emphasised the importance of public higher education and training institutions in advancing the work of the SETAs. This was not new to the SETAs as the Committee raised this concern in the previous financial year and, this year SETAs were expected to bring about substantive and qualitative changes identified in the NSDS III to increase employment opportunities for young people. The Committee further proposed that the mandatory grants paid to companies should be reviewed and, if legislation required to be amended to ensure that companies adhered to the notion of increased opportunities of employment for young people, it would initiate this process.