{"id":1087,"date":"2014-02-20T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2014-02-20T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:09:32","slug":"investigate-school-placement-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/02\/investigate-school-placement-system\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Investigate school placement system\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1095\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1095\" alt=\"Mr Godwin Sowah (right), the President of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), briefing the media in Accra\" src=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edu.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Godwin Sowah (right), the President of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), briefing the media in Accra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) has called on President John Mahama to order investigations into the abuse of the Computerised School, Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The association alleged that the admission placement processes were plagued with serious malpractices and, therefore, parents were losing confidence in the CSSPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is \u00a0clear evidence that the placement exercise has all these years been done haphazardly by officers who are not committed to their responsibilities,\u201d \u00a0GNAPS alleged further.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing in Accra yesterday, the President of GNAPS, Mr Godwin Sowah, who spoke on behalf of the association, accused personnel in charge of the admission placement processes of abusing the trust and confidence reposed in them by the public, adding that their conduct confirmed allegations that the CSSPS centre was plagued with serious malpractices.<\/p>\n<p>The event also marked the launch of the GNAPS Week celebration for 2014, which has the theme: \u201cQuality for quantity education\u2014which way, Ghana?\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>Wholesale admission<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Sowah also alleged that since the inception of the CSSPS, the GES had been promoting what it called \u2018the wholesale admission\u2019 of BECE candidates into public senior high, technical and vocational schools.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, currently, many children in basic schools could neither read nor write, yet they would be made to write the BECE, indicating that some would be placed in second-cycle institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It is either our mechanisms that need serious reforms or the human factor is woefully incompetent or we need a retraining of personnel at all levels,\u201d Mr Sowah added.<\/p>\n<h3>Leave education to professionals<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Sowah called on the public to rise against the manipulation of the educational system by politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstituencies and communities should turn their backs on the use of educational promises as a bait to catch votes\u201d, \u00a0he advised.<\/p>\n<p>He also said frequent policy changes and non-commitment in following laid-down rules and regulations, among other factors, \u2018had contributed to this poor state of affairs.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credit : Daily Graphic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) has called on President John Mahama to order investigations into the abuse of the Computerised School, Selection and Placement System (CSSPS). 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