Free SHS School Placement Challenges have been Resolved up to 60%

The Free Senior High School Secretariat has solved 60 to 70% of the school placement problems for first-year students in the country since the computer school placement (CSSPS) was made available.

There were over 6,000 issues for students who were not placed in any school or who wanted to change schools due to location, according to an interview with the Ghana News Agency.

The Deputy Coordinator expressed students with a single aggregate were to select schools under the category “A”, while students with an aggregate of 10 to 14 were to select from category “B.”

Students with an aggregate of 15 and above are to choose schools from category “C” and select the programme for their courses.

Within 24 hours, she said, the challenges would be addressed by the Secretariat staff. According to her, the exercise had been successful, and urged parents to exercise patience while the Secretariat addressed the challenges.

She said even though admission had started on December 4, the Secretariat was optimistic about addressing their issues as early as possible, adding that the first and second weeks were for orientation.

Nana Mensah said schools selected on the self-placement portal could be changed as many times as the candidate wished on the portal until they enrolled.

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The Secretariat assured the public, guardians, and students, especially those who could not be matched with their choices during the automatic placement by the CSSPS, that all schools with vacancies had been uploaded on the portal for students to select from during self-placement without hitches.

Out of the total number of 598,839 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), the Ghana Education Service (GES) says 585,797 candidates qualified to be placed.

“A total of 477,772 (81.56%) prospective students have automatically been placed in one of their choices. This is a significant improvement compared to last year’s, with over 100,000 more students placed.

However, 108,025 (18.44%) qualified candidates could not be matched with any of their choices. All such students are, therefore, to do self-placement to select from available schools,” it said in the release.