No more Admission form cash for Universities as gov’t introduces centralised application process

Plans are far advanced for the introduction of a centralized application to serve as the sole portal for university admission in Ghana.

Universities in Ghana have had a good time as they enjoyed free cash from the sale of admission forms to thousands of students and end up admitting just a hand full.

According to information available to Ghanaeducation.org, effective 2023/2024 academic year, all students applying to any university in the country will do so through a single platform called the Centralized Applications Processing Service (CAPS). The CAP will be used by both public and private universities for their admission needs into various programmes.

What this means is that a candidate will not have to buy more than one admission form for all the universities he or she wants to be considered for.

The Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Mohammed Salifu, in an interview monitored by Ghanaeducation.org said, (GTEC) is already working behind the scene with relevant stakeholders on the admission processes and modalities ahead of the next academic year.

The central admission portal will be activated, and up and running for the 2023/24 academic year. He furthered that all vice-chancellors and chancellors in the various public and private universities, as well are other relevant stakeholders, were all working together on technical issues relating to the CAPS.

Per the current practice, if a candidate decides to target four universities, he or she has to buy separate admission forms and submit them to the various universities, which increases pre-admission costs and documentation. The Centralized Applications Processing Service (CAPS) is one of the new policies to be introduced for the admission of candidates into universities per the new education policy.

It is expected that more details about the modalities will be made public in the coming months.

In a related development, it will be prudent on the part of the government to introduce a similar approach for enlistment into the security services.

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The introduction of a Centralized Enlistment Processing Service (CeEPS) will not be a bad idea. Recruitment into the various security services has become a means of making money from ordinary young Ghanaians who want to put their lives on the line to serve the country.