The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced the postponement of the reporting date for all new entrants into Senior High Schools (SHS) to Monday, October 20.
The GES attributed the postponement to some technical difficulties it is experiencing with the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
[contextly_sidebar id=”HwWZosSqFTxXBNw5L3xqyfRU6O9fwQq4″]The Director for Secondary Education of at the GES, Simon Asige explained to Citi News that the first year students were originally scheduled to report to school on October 13 “but that was with the understanding that by this time, all the printed list from the Computerized School Selection and Placement System but as at now, we have not been able to print out those ones as yet.”
He said it will therefore be needless to allow the students to report to their various schools of placement when the headmasters and mistresses have not been furnished with the full list of students posted to their respective schools.
In September, the GES announced the successful placement of 272,330 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) candidates into Senior High Schools and Technical Institutions (TIs) nationwide.
But an outstanding number of 149,890 candidates were expected to be placed under the second batch of the exercise.
Out of the 422,220 candidates who sat for the 2014 BECE, 421,270 were eligible for placement into SHSs and TIs.
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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