{"id":350401,"date":"2017-09-03T18:36:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T18:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=350401"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:32:59","slug":"ges-extends-window-for-bece-candidates-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/ges-extends-window-for-bece-candidates-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"GES extends window for BECE candidates&#8217; placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Education Service (GES) has extended the window of placement of 2017&#8217;s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates into Senior High Schools across the country.<\/p>\n<p>This is after the Service discovered that over 100,000 qualified BECE candidates had still not been placed, 24 hours after the initial deadline expired.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ViA4q6YAE2wTvAYbOVvH7i28LR0PSb3q&#8221;]The GES had initially given qualified BECE candidates 48 hours to select an available option, but the days in the window provided fell on a holiday and a weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted some protest from the likes of the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition, which described as<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/02\/ges-second-chance-window-for-candidates-inadequate-group\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> unreasonable the<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>48-hour ultimatum given by\u00a0GES.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates now have at least up to Tuesday, September 5 to complete the placement, pending a review.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;for those who have not been placed in any of their for options, we are asking them to continue to select schools on Monday [September 4] and Tuesday [September 5]. By next week Tuesday, we will do our review to assess the situation and take the next decision,&#8221; the acting Director-General of the GES, Professor Kwesi Opoku-Amankwa said in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By Monday and Tuesday, we are expecting that they will be able to purchase the card and then go online to either print their admission forms or select a school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Opoku-Amankwa explained further that the GES could have placed the candidates in question itself &#8220;but this time around, we are giving them the option to do what we call self-placement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325562\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325562\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Northern-BECE-sittings-1.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In all, 267, 327 candidates secured places in schools of their choice, while 150, 770 candidates could not be placed in a school of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>A total number of 460,941 registered candidates qualified to be placed while a\u00a0total of 36, 849 candidates were not placed because they scored a Grade 9 in either English or Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Education Service (GES) has extended the window of placement of 2017&#8217;s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates into Senior High Schools across the country. 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