Teacher unions call on GES to extend 1st-year SHS students reporting date
Teacher Unions citing delay in the release of the computer school placement have called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to extend the December 4, 2023 first-year Senior High School students reporting date.
The Union in a letter to the Director-General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah said the date for the reporting of first-year students “appears not practicable because the placement and reopening dates are too close”.
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“Asking form 1 students to report to school on December 4, 2023, only for them to go home again on 21 December 2023, for the Christmas holidays, will put “undue burden on students, staff, and parents,” it said.
The Unions indicated that the vacation period spanning from 21 December 2023 to 2 January 2024 “is too limited a time to offer staff members (both teaching and non-teaching) any meaningful rest”.
They therefore called on the management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to “reconsider all these situations and effect changes to the December 4, 2023 reporting date for the 2023 BECE graduates.
The Unions are the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Coalition of Concerned Teachers-Ghana (CCT-GH), and the Teachers’ and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU).
The teacher’s call comes after the Ghana Education Service in a press statement said that out of the 598,839 results received from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), 585,797 BECE candidates qualified to be placed.
“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.