School Placement: 165,601 Candidates To Do Self Placement

School Placement: 165,601 Candidates To Do Self Placement

The director general of the Ghana Education Service, Dr. Eric Nkansah has given an update of the ongoing preparation towards the release of the 2023 school placement.

In a press conference on Wednesday, the director revealed that the 2023 school placement has been released

He revealed that out of 547,329 registered candidates, 538,399 candidates qualified for placement. He added that a total of 322,780, representing 69.24% of the qualified students have been placed in at least one of their choices. However, 165,601 candidates, representing 37.76% could not be matched with any of their choices. All such students will therefore do self placement.

“Out of 547,329 registered candidates, 538,399 candidates qualified for placement. So far, a total of 322,780, representing 69.24% of the qualified students have been placed in at least one of their choices. However, 165,601 candidates, representing 37.76% could not be matched with any of their choices. All such students will therefore do self placement.” he said.

CSSPS Self-Placement procedure

• You will need your index number for this process.
• Log on to the site with your index number.
• Choose your residential preference (day or boarding).
• If a candidate selects boarding. all schools with boarding vacancies will be displayed.
• If a candidate selects a day, another menu will appear for candidates to
  select:
  i.Day within catchment area Or
  ii. Day outside of catchment area
• Day within the catchment area displays only schools with Vacancies within 16km of the JHS the candidate attended.
• Day outside catchment area displays all schools with day vacancies.
• The last part is the programme choice. Candidates will have to choose their preferred programme.
• After going through this, candidates are required to print out the form and proceed to the school enrollment.
• Everything is put in place to ensure that all qualified graduates of BECE get schools to attend through the CSSPS and the self-placement system.