The Ghana Education Service (GES) has assured that it is committed to releasing the placement of 2022 JHS graduates into senior high schools before the reopening date of February 20.
The new academic calendar for SHS I students indicates that freshmen are expected in school on February 20, which is 7 days away.
Parents have raised concerns about their wards not yet having placements with just a week until the reopening date.
The Computerized School Selection and Placement System which was introduced by the GES seeks to place qualified BECE graduates into second-cycle institutions.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has assured that it is committed to releasing the placement of 2022 JHS graduates into senior high schools before the reopening date of February 20.
The new academic calendar for SHS I students indicates that freshmen are expected in school on February 20, which is 7 days away.
Parents have raised concerns about their wards not yet having placements with just a week until the reopening date.
The computerized school selection and placement system, which was introduced by the GES, seeks to place qualified BECE graduates into second-cycle institutions.
Reacting to the concerns raised, the PRO for the Ghana Education Service, Cassandra Twum-Ampofo, asked stakeholders, particularly parents, to remain calm as plans are underway to release the school placements soon.
“We are preparing so hard to ensure the release of the placements, and just this weekend, we had a training for our call center agents so that they can attend to issues having to do with parents with challenges.
“We continue to caution parents and guardians not to pay money to anyone to have their children placed in any school.”
She also admonished parents and guardians alike “not to pay money to anyone to have your ward’s school changed; we have good teachers in our schools.”
Mrs. Twum-Ampofo further blamed some of the delays in the reporting date for freshmen on the disruption in the academic calendar brought up by COVID-19.
She said a meeting with various stakeholders indicated “we needed to go back to our previous calendar, which used to begin in September, and so we had some back and forth on that, and we agreed to go back, and we needed to reduce the contact period so that we will be able to move back to the September to July calendar before COVID-19 sets in".
