Comply with admission lists or lose positions
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said it has dispatched school placement lists to all senior high schools (SHSs) and warned that no student on the lists should be denied admission.
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It said out of the 440,000 candidates who wrote this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), 404,800, representing 92 per cent, had been placed. “Heads are advised to ensure that no student on their schools’ placement lists is denied admission,” the Director General of the GES, Mr Jacob A.M. Kor, warned.
Mr Kor assured all parents and students that every qualified student would be placed by the end of the exercise.
A statement signed by Mr Kor and copied to the Daily Graphic asked regional directors of education to bring the information to the attention of all heads in their respective regions.
Comply or lose your position
While entreating all heads of SHSs to comply with the directive, it said any head who charged unauthorised fees would lose his or her position.
It said the Secondary Education Division of the GES and the Computerised Schools Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) were collaborating to resolve any challenges that might rise in the admission process.
Situation at Wesley Girls’ High School
The Daily Graphic reported yesterday that scores of students who had been offered placement at the Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast by the CSSPS had been denied admission because of lack of accommodation facilities.
Some parents who went to the school with their children to complete admission processes returned home disappointed.
Other parents who were still hopeful that there could be a way out remained in the school, hoping to see the authorities at the time the Daily Graphic filed the report.
Cut-off point
Some of the parents claimed that their children had been denied admission because the school claimed the children did not meet the cut-off point.
According to a parent who spoke to the Daily Graphic, her daughter, who had aggregate seven, was placed by the CSSPS as a General Arts student.
The woman said she paid the fees accordingly and sent the child to the school, only to find out that the school had a different list of admitted students on its notice board which did not include her daughter’s name.
Problems in other schools
Reports from across the country indicate that other Grade A SHSs were denying admission to students placed on the list by the CSSPS. The heads of those schools claimed that they did not have the facilities to take care of the seemingly large numbers of students on the admission lists.
They argued that if the directive from the GES must be complied with, the question was how soon would the government provide the facilities for the admission of all the students.