GES to release SHS placement list on Sunday

 The Ghana Education Service has announced that the SHS placement is set to be released on Sunday, 21st February 2021.

The placement is said to cover candidates, both in public and private institutions who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 2020, as well as other re-entrants.

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has hinted that about 525,000 qualified BECE candidates will be seeking placement into 721 senior high, technical, and vocational schools of their choices which have declared about 535,000 vacancies.

Prof. Opoku-Amankwa said that the GES had worked closely with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to release the results of the majority of the candidates whose results had been withheld, adding that there were currently less than 100 candidates whose results had still been withheld.

He added that there were enough vacancies for the candidates, for which reason there was no need for any candidate or parent to panic.

The director-general explained that the challenge with the CSSPS had always been an issue of choice and not the availability of spaces.

On the arrangements being put in place to address overcrowding of candidates and parents, he explained that unlike the previous years when the management of the GES had to set up solution centres where those with genuine issues could go for help, “this year, because of the COVID-19, we want to avoid the situation where people will rush to the Black Star Square and other places to gather”.

“So we are setting up call centres to receive and work on issues people may be coming up with,” he explained.

Prof. Opoku-Amankwa explained that at such centres they could address genuine technical issues and also the issue of a day student placed in a distant school.

Asked whether or not the double-track system for school attendance should be stopped, he said discussions needed to go on as to whether or not it should remain or be completely scrapped as advocated by a section of society.