GES dedicates 1st-year SHS students reporting day for registration

The Ghana Education Service (GES) despite calls by Teacher unions and Parliament to postpone the reporting date for first-year second-cycle school students who sat for the 2023 BECE says the reporting day remains December 4, 2023.

In a statement shared with Thisterm.com, the management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) said It is the expectation that schools begin registration and orientation of students from the 4th of December 2023.

“Per the academic calendar, there would be a Christmas break on the 21st of December 2023 and resume on the 3rd of January 3 2024 to continue academic work till March 5, 2024

Management urges all students yet to do their self-placement to do so as quickly as practicable. We appreciate all stakeholders for collaborating and supporting the Computerized School Selection and Placement System process to this point.

We continue to ask for your patience to ensure the academic calendar for SHS is implemented without hitches in order to get back to the pre-COVID academic calendar,” the statement signed by spokesperson for the Education Service said.

Out of the 598,839 provisional BECE results received from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), 585,797 candidates according to the Ghana Education Service (GES) qualified for computer school placement.

“A total of 477,772 (81.56%) prospective students have automatically been placed in one of their choices. This is a significant improvement compared to last year’s, with over 100,000 more students placed

However, 108,025 (18.44%) qualified candidates could not be matched with any of their choices. All such students are, therefore to do self-placement to select from available schools,” GES under the auspices of the Education Ministry said.

The Ghana Education Service statement comes after the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) amid the delayed release of the 2023 school placement, some students are yet to be placed in a school hence December 4 will put undue pressure on parents.

A Public Relations Officer for Association in an interview with Accra-based Class 91.3 FM emphasized the December 4 school going time was too short for parents to prepare for their wards to report to school on December 4, 2023.

Describing the time frame as very very short, she has called on the Ministry of Education under the auspices of the government to reconsider its decision mainly by considering the issues raised by the teacher unions and the PTA.