All qualified Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who are being placed into senior high schools (SHSs) and technical and vocational institutions are expected to report to school on February 20, 2023. This is part of the timetable the Ghana Education Service (GES) has released for the academic year for all SHSs and also basic […]
The Education Minister and the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) were the only ones given access and passwords to approve protocol placement into Category A senior high schools. This was to curb fraud, but The Fourth Estate‘s investigations found that placement into such schools happened through a network of intermediaries that included cleaners and […]
Officials of the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS) have started addressing various concerns of thousands of parents and children who have massed up at the Independence Square seeking senior high school placement. The process, which ended abruptly on Monday without a single case being attended to, was masked by chaos, frustration, anger and confusion, […]
National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku has expressed satisfaction at the swift and timely manner in which the Minister for Education, Mathew Opoku Prempeh and his team handled the challenges that plagued the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS). Scores of prospective Senior High School (SHS) students, running in […]
Deputy Director General at the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr. Kwabena Tandoh, has stated that most people who showed up at the Black Stars Square for their Senior High School placement only came for replacements. According to him, over 90% who came to the Solution Centre are not those who were placed but rather they […]
Some first-year students and their parents who turned up at the Mfantsipim Senior High School (SHS) in the Central Region with their trunks and chop boxes on Sunday have been left stranded after they were turned away by authorities of the school. The school’s authorities claim the students who were placed in the school under […]
Some disgruntled parents, guardians and students yesterday besieged the Free Senior High School (SHS) Secretariat Black Star Square in Accra to express their frustrations. While some were there over the non-placement of their wards in their preferred schools, others placed in day schools far away are requesting for changes. Some parents, guardians and students expressed […]
The Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) for senior high schools (SHS) has placed 351,022 students for the 2019/2020 academic year. The students have been placed in 721 public and private senior high schools across the country. The figure represents 74.01% of the total 473,728 qualified candidates who were due for placement for the […]
Prospective Senior High School (SHS) students can check their school placements by close of day Friday, September 6, 2019. According to the Director of Communications at the Ministry of Education, Mr Vincent Ekow Assafuah, iterations are being done ahead of the release of the placements. According to him, a 10% quota had been reserved for […]
The Computerised Schools Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) has introduced new policy guidelines for the placement of candidates of this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into senior high schools (SHSs) and technical institutes (TIs). Mr Mark Sasu-Mensah, the National Coordinator of the CSSPS The policy guidelines, which aim at ensuring the smooth placement of […]
