The DBE, in collaboration with Provincial Education Departments (PEDs), had within the period between 2010 and 2012, trained teachers in 200 multi-grade schools in KwaZulu-Natal (54 schools), the Eastern Cape (85 schools), Free State (34 schools) and Limpopo (27 schools) on Multi-Grade pedagogy. The training programme was provided by the Centre for Multi-Grade Education of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The DBE also provided a toolkit for Multi-Grade schools. The toolkit provided Multi-Grade schools with: