Deputy Speaker, yes, so that I am not accused of discrimination. Thank you very much to the hon Professor for the question. We have professors on both sides of the House, which is good for higher education.
The hon Lotriet is right. We are equally concerned about the fact that in some of our FET programmes, in fact, we have in one class someone who has passed Grade 9, and others Grades 10, 11 and 12. We are doing something about this. There is a task team that I appointed last year to look specifically into this question. If I'm not mistaken, I asked them to report by September last year, but I was not happy at all with the report because I did not think that what they came up with addressed this problem. There are lots of suggestions on the table that the task team is looking at. For instance, some people are talking about two types of NCV, one for Grade 9s and 10s and another one for those who have done Grade 12, which will be an accelerated shorter programme because we are dealing with people who are at a higher cognitive level. I am expecting this task team to report back before June. Hon Lotriet, you can also hold me to this. This is one report I would like to bring to the portfolio committee to say this is what we are doing.
However, part of dealing with that problem is the need to diversify the offerings at our FET colleges. We need to expand the types of programmes so that our students are not straitjacketed. At the moment, Deputy Speaker, some programmes that are offered at private FET colleges are not available in our public FET colleges, like sound engineering, and some specialised programmes in media. We want to build and introduce those so that there are a whole variety of choices such that we cater for every student with Grade 9 who wants to pursue a particular programme with the necessary measurement of their level of cognitive grasp of the programmes that are being offered. Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker.