Education

EduWatch calls on MoE to secure CSSPS portal to avoid being hacked

Mr. No-Body 2 years ago

Education think tank – Africa Education Watch has called on the Ministry of Education to put in place measures to ensure that the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) portal is secured from system breaches.

The Watch advice comes after GES in 2019 declared the CSSPS website had been hacked, a situation which ended with the majority of parents gathered at the Black Star Square to demand SHS placement for their wards.

Fast forward to the 2022 academic year the computerised school selection and placement system (CSSPS) portal again came under cyber attack by a group opposed to Ghana’s anti-gay legislation.

This text “HackEd #GayLivesMattersToo https://csspsverify.tiiny.site” was sent from the CSSPS platform to parents in the early hours of February 18, 2022.

Africa Education Watch therefore has suggested to the Education Ministry to improve the level of security, accessibility, efficiency and effectiveness of the placement website to ensure a smooth placement.

“It is our expectation that the Education Ministry has increased the security on the CSSPS website and expanded the capacity of same to contain the expectant higher traffic,” the Director of the Education Watch said in a social media post.

In a related development, the CSSPS Secretariat has opened the Heads of SHS/TVI portal, this will enable school heads to know the number of 2024 BECE graduates placed in their school for admission.

Protected with login details, only head teachers of government second-cycle schools have access to https://hm.cssps.gov.gh/ to view the placements made in their respective schools through the CSSPS system.