{"id":144453,"date":"2015-08-18T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=144453"},"modified":"2015-08-18T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T17:51:42","slug":"bece-candidates-given-opportunity-to-confirm-shs-selection-ges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=144453","title":{"rendered":"BECE candidates given opportunity to confirm SHS selection &#8211; GES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students who completed this year\u2019s Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) are being given the opportunity to confirm the senior high schools they selected before final placements are made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the\u00a0Ghana Education Service (GES), the move is to help the students refresh their minds on the schools they selected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;fAdEwroNcKHjezJndFJHKqj3ZX1KSYE8&#8243;]In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Deputy Director General of the GES, Stephen Adu said the decision forms part of measures to ensure a free and transparent placement for the 2015\/2016 academic year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSometimes some of them have forgotten the schools they chose and then when we finish the placement then they will be complaining so this is one of the ways to check the four schools they selected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation which will be via text messages will run from August to September, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Each candidate can text their index numbers to the short code <strong>1060<\/strong> followed by the last two (2) digits of the year of completion on the following networks MTN, Vodafone, Airtel, Tigo, and Kasapa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\u2019s BECE was characterized by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/19\/leaked-bece-papers-culpable-persons-will-be-sanctioned-mark-woyongo\/\" target=\"_blank\">massive leakage<\/a><\/strong><\/span> which led to the cancellation and subsequently, a re-write of some five papers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students who completed this year\u2019s Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) are being given the opportunity to confirm the senior high schools they selected before final placements are made. According to the\u00a0Ghana Education Service (GES), the move is to help the students refresh their minds on the schools they selected. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;fAdEwroNcKHjezJndFJHKqj3ZX1KSYE8&#8243;]In an interview with Citi News, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":129541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,16],"class_list":["post-144453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}