MoE denies claims of errors in 2024 SHS/TVET placement selection

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has denied a claim indicating that some mistakes have been recorded in the second cycle school placement selection of students who sat for the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

This comes after a statement MoE has described as fake said a few mistakes made by parents in the selection procedure and detected by the Ghana Education Service have led to the failure to identify students’ placement status.

The second cycle school selection process for Junior High School (JHS) students who participated in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) commenced on August 28, 2024, and ended on September 4, 2024

Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum following challenges that confronted the 2023 Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) said the majority of the second cycle school placement errors were caused by parents of the BECE students.

Describing the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) as perfect, the Education Minister said the challenge emerged from parents who failed to attend meetings for the Senior High School (SHS) selection processes.

“Before the placement exercise, we engage in wide public sensitization on the various media stations in the districts to forestall errors. The computer processes the placements according to our inputs

Sometimes parents are nonchalant about the choices and selections their wards make and so their wards go through the selection process on their own,” the Education Minister said while addressing the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs.

He however said the Ministry of Education, Free Senior High School Secretariat, Ghana Education Service and TVET Service have set up regional solution centres to address computer school placement challenges reported by students.

“We have established solution centres. All those who have been given schools far from their homes may visit their Regional Education office which will help change the school,” the Minister for Education told the House of Chiefs.

The Education Minister despite the challenges faced by the 2023 Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), said the country recorded the highest second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) enrollment in history.

Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum addressing the members of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs in Kumasi said the Ministry of Education was able to place 95% of 2023 Junior High School graduates into various Senior High Schools in the country.

The Education Minister also stated that about 81 per cent of the students who sat for the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination were automatically placed into their selected schools with 19% depending on self-placement.