This was the wake-up call that finally put capacity shortfalls at the top of the political agenda. Whereupon the previous Flemish Government poured more than 20 million euros into secondary education in the greater Vlaamse Rand area around Brussels in a bid to cut the anticipated 8,039 secondary school place shortfall to 5.660 by 2021-2022. The catching up process is underway but the target is still a long way off.