Hon James, it feels like three years already! The matter of teacher education and training has been a subject of a recent teacher education summit where agreements were reached about how to accelerate teacher education, including in these specialised subjects as well as other subjects such as African languages, if we are going to succeed in terms of teaching in the foundation phase.
This area is one of the areas about which we are currently in discussion with the Minister of Basic Education because it straddles both departments in terms of what would be the best way of responding to the need, about which you are right, for teacher training and education in these particular areas.
One of the things we are looking at is something the Minister of Basic Education has mentioned in answering another question, namely how, for instance, FETs could be used for certain things. But we are also looking at the possibility of working towards teacher training institutes - that's another option - and perhaps also how universities themselves need to increase and multiply their delivery sites for teacher education.
So, this is one matter that is a priority for both the Department of Higher Education and Training and the Department of Basic Education. Once we have come up with concrete proposals we'll make sure that we come and share them with members so that we can get feedback.