Education Minister to appear before Parliament over SHS 1 students reporting date
The Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum today December 4, 2023, will appear before Parliament of Ghana to address issues of first-year second-cycle school students reporting date.
This comes after the Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin on behalf of Members of Parliament, and parents appealed to the Ministry of Education to postpone the December 4 reporting date for 2023 BECE graduates.
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But despite concerns about the short period students have to prepare before reporting to school, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has insisted students report to school as scheduled per the 2023/2024 academic calendar.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in a press statement signed by its spokeswoman, Cassandra Twum Ampofo said it is the expectation of management that schools begin registration and orientation of students from December 4.
It added that per the academic calendar, there would be a Christmas break on the 21st of December, 2023, and resume on the 3rd of January, 2024 to continue academic work till March 5, 2024.
“We appreciate all stakeholders for collaborating and supporting the CSSPS process to this point. We continue to ask for your patience to ensure the academic calendar for SHS is implemented without hitches to get back to the pre-COVID academic calendar,” the statement said.
The Ghana Education Service announcing release of the placement said that out of the 598,839 BECE provisional results received from the West African Examinations Council, 585,797 prospective candidates qualified for school placement
“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. To access the placement platform,” it said in the release.