CSSPS official gives date for 2024 BECE graduates SHS/TVET placement release

Barring any last-minute changes, the National Coordinator for the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), Mark Sasu, says this year Senior High School and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (SHS/TVET) placement will be released a week before October 30, 2024.

“We expect that a week before October 30, 2024, that the 2024 BECE graduates would report to their various second-cycle schools, we will be able to release the computer second-cycle school placement,” he said in an interview.

The CSSPS official, in the interview, indicated that his outfit is gathering five sets of data: the school register, master file or bio file, choice file, vacancy file, and results file to process the second cycle school placement.

Sasu said the Director-General of Ghana Education Service and TVET and the Minister of Education have met with various security agencies to tackle cases of second-cycle school placement fraud and fraudsters.

“This being an election year we know people will capitalize on audits and try to maybe cause mayhem in the system. We want to tell them that the security agencies are wide awake and if anybody does that he or she will be picked up,” he stated.

Asked if the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) has encountered any challenges as earlier indicated in a purported statement, Mr Mark said the second-cycle school placement system is working fine.

He debunked the claim that the Computerized School Selection and Placement System has recorded few mistakes by 2024 Junior High School graduates in the government’s second-cycle school selection procedures.

The CSSPS National Coordinator urged members of the public to disregard information that, out of the total number of over 569,000 BECE results received from WAEC, 451,797 candidates qualified to be placed.

A total of 569,236 candidates, comprising 282,703 males and 286,533 females from nineteen thousand, five hundred and five (19,505) participating Junior High Schools (JHSs) entered for the school examination.

This includes fifty-nine (59) candidates with visual impairment, two hundred and sixty-three (263) with hearing impairment and one hundred and sixty-one (161) candidates with other test accommodation needs.

The examination was conducted at Two thousand, one hundred and twenty-three (2,123) centres across the country. Out of the total number, three thousand, eight hundred and forty-five (3,845) candidates were absent