Expenditure on education, sport and culture for national departments will grow at an average annual rate of 12.1 per cent over the MTEF period, from a revised estimate of R27.428 billion in 2012/13 to R38.616 billion in 2015/16. Focus areas in the MTEF for the sector include improving literacy and numeracy, reducing school infrastructure backlogs and implementation of the new sports plan. An amount of R7.2 billion has been reprioritised from the School Infrastructure Backlogs Grant to fund the establishment of new universities in the Mpumalanga and Northern Cape provinces, the Community Library Services Conditional Grant and the Education Infrastructure Grant.