CSSPS ‘SHS/TVET’ placement system operates automatically – MoE

The Ministry of Education (MoE) says the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) for second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) placement has been designed to function automatically without human intervention.

“We have decided to allow the system to function and work, and we will not seek to interfere by manually manipulating the system. We want to eliminate the biased, sometimes financially induced manipulation of the system,” the Deputy Minister for Education, Dr Clement Abas Apaak, said in an interview.

Speaking in an interview, the Deputy Minister for Education, Dr Clement Abas Apaak, said the 2025 second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) placement results will be released on September 17, 2025, by the CSSPS Secretariat.

“Our students who completed Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), whose results are out, will be placed through the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) tomorrow (Wednesday)

We expect that the students will be placed according to the way the system has been programmed to place them,” the Deputy Education Minister said in the interview.

Dr Clement Abas Apaak gave an assurance that, based on the challenges of previous years, the current team had worked hard to ensure that “we do not encounter some of those challenges”.

The Education Minister said this year, the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) team was determined to ensure that the system worked smoothly without human intervention.

The Deputy Minister said there were limited spaces in Grade ‘A’ second-cycle schools where there had always been a scramble for places, urging parents to accept the school placements of their wards.

He added that the success of students did not depend on the schools they attended, insisting that “it will depend on the commitment of the student to academic work, discipline, the support of the parents, and, of course, the efforts of the school”.

“Success is not predicated on attending a Grade ‘A’ school,” Dr Apaak stressed.

Mr Apaak said the CSSPS team had set up a resolution centre at the GNAT Hall in Accra to address genuine challenges, especially where a boy was placed in an all-girls school, or a girl in an all-boys school.

Dr Abas Clement added that the centre would also resolve situations where a student, for instance, selected a technical institute or secondary technical institute but was placed in an all-girls school.

He said on the directive of the Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, the resolution centre would have adequate security arrangements to assist both staff and members of the public during the resolution process.

“We expect to run a 24-hour resolution centre so that issues will be addressed as quickly as possible,” he explained, adding that by the time the students would be reporting to school in a month’s time, all outstanding issues would have been resolved.

The Minister of Education advised parents and guardians not to pay money to anyone who promises to secure a second-cycle school placement for their children under the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).

“Placement is free. Do not pay money to anyone who claims he/she can help you with placement. Anyone who demands money in exchange for placement is a fraudster and should be reported to the police immediately,” the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Clement Apaak, said.

This year, a total of 603,328 candidates, comprising 297,250 males and 306,078 females, from nineteen thousand, five hundred and five (19,505) Junior High Schools (JHSs) entered for the school examination.

This includes seventy-two (72 ) candidates with visual impairment, two hundred and thirty-nine (239) with hearing impairment, and one hundred and sixty-one (161) candidates with other test accommodation needs.

The examination was conducted at two thousand, two hundred and thirty-seven (2,237 ) centres across the country. Out of the total number, two thousand, five hundred and twenty-six (2,526) candidates were absent.

The BECE for Private Candidates recorded a total entry figure of one thousand, three hundred and ninety (1,661) candidates. This was made up of eight hundred and fifty-eight (858) males and eight hundred and three (803 ) females.

Fifteen (15) centres, mostly in the regional capitals, were used for the BECE for Private Candidates. Out of the total number of candidates who entered for the examination, fifty-seven (57) were absent.