MoE blames BECE students parents for SHS/TVET placement errors
The Minister of Education following challenges confronting the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) says the majority of the second cycle school (SHS/TVET) placement errors were caused by parents of the BECE students.
Describing the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) as perfect, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum said a challenge emerges from parents who failed to attend meetings for the Senior High School (SHS) selection processes.
“Before the placement exercise, we engage in wide public sensitization on the various media stations in the districts to forestall errors. The computer processes the placements according to our inputs.
Sometimes parents are nonchalant about the choices and selections their wards make and so their wards go through the selection process on their own,” the Education Minister said while addressing the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs.
He however said the Ministry of Education, Free Senior High School Secretariat, Ghana Education Service and TVET Service have set up regional solution centres to address computer school placement challenges reported by students.
“We have established solution centres. All those who have been given schools far from their homes may visit their Regional Education office which will help change the school,” the Minister for Education told the House of Chiefs.
The Education Minister despite the challenges faced by this year’s Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), said the country has recorded the highest second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) enrollment in history.
Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum addressing the members of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs in Kumasi said the Ministry of Education was able to place 95% of 2023 Junior High School graduates into various Senior High Schools in the country.
The Education Minister also stated that about 81 per cent of the students who sat for the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination were automatically placed into their selected schools with 19% depending on self-placement.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) on November 28, 2023, released the 2023 Computerised School Selection and Placement System into Senior High Schools and Technical and Vocational Education and Training Schools (TVET).
Out of the total number of 598,839 results received from the West African Examination Council (WAEC), 585,797 candidates qualified to be placed. A total of 477,772 (81.56 percent) were automatically placed in one of their choices.
However, 108,025 (18.44 percent) qualified candidates could not be matched with any of their choices and were urged to do self-placement to select from available second-cycle schools at the self-placement module at cssps.gov.gh.