Mr S Seepei: Chief Executive Officer led the presentation which highlighted the following key issues: . MQA had six strategic objectives namely; transformation, decision making through research, enhancement of knowledge and information management, core skills development programmes aligned with sector qualifications, enhancement of monitoring, evaluation, review, delivery capacity and quality of skills development and effective and transparent corporate governance system. . There was a problem with the reliability of information gathered through outsourced research functions. The service had since been moved in-house and process of recruiting staff to strengthen its internal research capacity was underway. . Budget: The MQA received an unqualified audit report in 2012/13. In spite the challenges in the mines, skills levy income continued to increase. The discretionary grants expenditure budget was expected to increase from R302 million to R604 million owing to new SETA Grant Regulations. The total income for 2013/14 was R763 million, estimated expenditure R869 million and the net surplus R84 million. R393 million has been committed for multi-year funding of bursaries and artisan training. . The MQA assisted historically disadvantaged employees in the mining sector with advanced management training to improve their skills. A partnership with certain FET colleges was formed to assist with lecturer training and development. . MQA partnered with various higher education institutions for lecturer development. Service level agreements (SLAs) were signed with University of Pretoria to conduct review of SSP and University of Johannesburg to conduct a study on reasons for poor results in the Government Certificates of Competency and propose an improved competency model. . Three postgraduate students will be funded to study mining related qualifications and the three would serve in the research unit of the MQA as interns. . Six Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) were signed with FET colleges throughout the country. The College of Cape Town had been accredited as a trade test centre for the Goldsmith qualifications.