Education Minister to appear before Parliament over SHS reporting date
The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum following calls for first-year Senior High School (SHS) students reporting date to be postponed on Monday, December 4, 2023, will brief Parliament on the school-going date.
This comes after the Speaker of Parliament, Alban S. K. Bagbin proposed to the Education Ministry to shift the reporting date of the 2023 BECE graduates to be admitted as first-year second-cycle school students to January 2024.
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The management of the Ghana Education Service on November 28, 2023, released the computer school placement of Junior High School students who partook in the 33rd edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in the press statement said that out of the 598,839 BECE provisional results received from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), 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.
How to check school placement
1. Visit the CSSPS portal
2. Click on check placement
3. Enter your Index number
4. Enter your 10 digit E-voucher pin and
5. Enter your 5-digit PIN code
6. Click on Proceed and wait a few minutes for the next window to display your school placement.
How to do self-placement
1. Visit the CSSPS portal
2. Then select the check placement module on the left-hand side
3. Enter your BECE Index Number (eg. 100000000023) and
4. Enter your 10 digit E-voucher pin and
5. Enter your 5-digit PIN code
6. Click on Proceed to be redirected to the self-placement module
When redirected successfully to the Self-placement module, you will be provided with a selection of schools to pick from based on the aggregate or grade you had in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
7. Choose carefully your desired second-cycle school
8. Choose your residential preference (Day/Boarding).
9. Select your programme of choice
10. After doing all the necessary checks, confirm and print. Remember that once you have completed the selection process it can not be undone or changed