Hon Deputy Speaker, no, I do not intend to stagger registration insofar as universities are concerned. With colleges it is different, because their registration is already staggered.
I do understand the issue that you are raising. There is too short a time between, for instance, the release of the matric results and the opening of the institutions. We are dealing with this matter in two ways: firstly, universities call for early applications. There is often a high correlation between the students' mid-year results of the previous year and the students who actually qualify for university entrance. That is the one way.
What we have also done now is to allow late applications for those students who have done surprisingly better in their final matric examinations or for students who have been kicked out of the system because they did not do well in their final matric exams. The Cach system was the first step towards actually having a central system which students can access through a computer or through a phone instead of going to apply physically. Universities are able to use it to identify those students who had passed whom they would actually like to take. At the moment, we think that that is the best we can do. The closer we move to a central applications system, the better we will improve our capacity to overcome the challenges that you are talking about. Thank you.