The remit of the DQSE, as the regulator, clearly indicated in the Education (Amendment) Act, 2006 Cap.327, Part II, Article 8:629, is ‘to regulate, establish, monitor and assure standards and quality programmes and educational services in the compulsory educational levels provided by schools, whether State schools or not, as provided for in this Act’. In addition, the Bill also sets out the functions and the setting up of the Permanent Committee for Education, presided by the Minister. Policy direction is given by the Permanent Committee for Education and the power of decision-making will remain first and foremost the jurisdiction of this same Committee. The Bill states that the committee is ‘to discuss and evaluate the policy, the strategy and the direction and the developments in the education sector …, monitor and follow the implementation of the educational policy and strategy adopted by the Government’. (Education (Amendment) Act, 2006 Cap.327, Part II, Article 17:636) The Education (Amendment) Act, 2006 also makes provision for the necessary legal framework for reorganising the existing kindergarten, primary, secondary and ‘grammar’ school-type junior lyceum state schools into colleges. Four pilot colleges were established in October 2005, and the full complement of ten ‘autonomous’ regional colleges was in place by October 2007.