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28 Aug

School Placement Process For Recent BECE Candidates Begins Today

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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced the commencement of the school placement process for Junior High School (JHS) leavers who recently completed their Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE). The selection process will run from today, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 to Wednesday, 4 September 2024. In a statement, the GES urged parents and guardians to actively participate in the school selection exercise to ensure a smooth placement process. “Parents and guardians are particularly advised to take keen interest in the school selection exercise to ensure a smooth placement this year,” the GES advised. The GES also revealed that candidates will…

12 Sep

Our Target Is To Get 90% Automatic Placement To Have Access To Their School- Mark Mensah

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National coordinator at computerised school selection and placement system (CSSPS), Mark Sasu Mensah, has revealed that their major aim this year is to aid 90% of students to have access to schools they would be automatically placed to. He noted this in an interview with Kwaku Dawuro, on Movement In The Morning show, which airs on Movement TV/Wontumi radio, that due to vacancies at certain programs in some category A schools, provision will be made for students to have alternatives with regards to that. '' Last year there were about 2 or 3 vacancies at the Home economics department in…

27 Feb

School Placement Fraud: Man Who Posed As GES Agent Arrested

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The Police has arrested a man who claims to be an agent of the Ghana Education Service (GES), at the school placement centre in Accra. This comes on the back of an exposé by the Fourth Estate (Media) uncovering alleged fraud in the Computerized School Selection and Placement System – (CSSPS). In the exposé, the irregularities that have flooded the CSSPS were uncovered in a video leading to the arrest of some persons. The man who claims to be an agent of the GES, was arrested on Monday, 27 February 2023, after taking an amount of GHS1400 from a victim…

16 Feb

Hundreds Of Parents Troop GNAT Hall For School Placement

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Hundreds of parents and their wards who sat for the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have thronged the GNAT Hall in Accra for placement. The center was set up by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to help with both self-placement and replacement of students in available schools in all categories, excerpt category ‘A’ schools. According to the GES, “Out of the 547,329 candidates who sat for the examination, 538,399 qualified for school placement. out of these, 372,780 candidates have automatically been placed into various schools.” This leaves a total of “165,601 candidates who will have to do self-placement because…

30 Jan

Education Ministry Cautions Against Payment Of Money For School Placement

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The Ministry of Education has cautioned parents and guardians of prospective Senior High School students against paying money as the school placement begins. In a press statement dated January 28, the Ministry noted that the placement process is purely on merit and thus no other consideration is done whatsoever. “Prospective Senior High School students, parents/guardians and the general public are hereby cautioned against any form of payment to unscrupulous individuals, offering to secure their preferred choice of school during the 2023 Computerised School Placement into Senior High/TVET Schools.” The Ministry assured the general public of a transparent, equitable, and merit-based…

15 Jan

2023 School Placement To Begin With Verification Of Students’ School Choices.

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The Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the 2023 school placement exercise will begin with the verification of students’ school choices. GES in a release signed by the Head of the Public Relations Unit, Cassandra Twum Ampofo explained the rationale behind the new procedure. According to the release, "this verification process is to ensure accuracy in students’ choice information before they are placed in their selected Second Cycle Schools". The verification exercise which commenced on 14th January 2023 will end on 22nd January 2023. GES noted as part of the verification exercise, students, parents/guardians will receive…