Given the statistics by the Council on Higher Education that 60% of learners who enrolled in Grade 1 wrote Matric and only 12% went to university, and the fact that the 40% deficit amounts to 3,2 million children between the ages of 15 to 24 who are not in school, employment and/or in any skills-based training opportunities, what (a) plans has her department put in place to reduce the 40%- gap between learners who enrol in Grade 1 and those who write the matric exams and (b) did the assessments of her department find to be the cause of the drop-outs