The Ghana Education Service (GES) will place about 490,000 qualified Senior High School students on school placement for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Professor Kwesi Opoku-Amankwa, the Director-General of GES, who announced this at a media briefing in Aburi, said according to the results submitted by West African Examination Council (WAEC) to GES, the total candidature for the BECE was 517,331.
He said out of this, a complete aggregate file of 514,215 was submitted and an outstanding data for 3116 results are yet to be submitted to the Service.
"By our predictions, approximately 490,000 qualified students will be placed," he said.
Prof Opoku-Amankwa said the school placement has started and the portal would be opened to the students, parents and the public on the evening of Sunday, September 8, 2019.
The public could access the results thereafter by purchasing the voucher from vendors or with mobile money online and log onto: cssps.gov.GH or cssps.org.
They should then, click on "check on placement", enter the index number and the voucher code, access and print the placement form.
The Director-General said if a student is not automatically placed, they should access the self-placement platform.
Prof Opoku-Amankwa said Face Dynamic Ventures, Ghana Post Company Limited, Swift Africa Logistics Limited, ARB Apex Bank Limited and Medollo and Gem Limited are the five authorized Pin Code vendors.
The GES, he said, has also established a call center to resolve issues arising from placement and it would be opened from Monday, September 9.
Prof Opoku-Amankwa urged the public to call the center on 030-700-7777 for redress.
WAEC released this year's BECE results on August 29 and subsequently the results to GES on August 31 to enable the Service commence the school placement process.
On reopening of SHS, Prof Opoku-Amankwa said the 2019/2020 academic year has begun with the return to school of students in Form Three.
He said it is important to note that this year marks the full cohort of the entire school made up of Free Senior High School Students.
Prof Opoku-Amankwa said the implications of every student in SHS enjoying the Free SHS programme of the Government should be obvious to all stakeholders.
"Management of GES is conscious of the implications of this development in the administration and management of the schools under this circumstances," he said.
"What it means is that it will require additional commitment and dedication from all stakeholders, mangers, administrators, teaching and non-teaching staff, students as well as parents/guardians."
Prof Opoku-Amankwa said: "It is the expectation of Management of GES that all stakeholders will work together and cooperate effectively to ensure successful management of the system".
The first years (Form One -Green Track) students are expected to re-open school on September 15 while those on the Gold Track will re-open on November 12, 2019.
Form Two Gold students will reopen school on October 15 and the Green Track will be expected to return to school on September 15, 2019, he added.
Source: GNA
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The management of the Ghana Education Service and WAEC are corrupt. They have intentionally created a business enterprises for their own benefits. This is day light robbery. How can you say that parents should not pay for GHC 5.00 exams fee. But when you release BECE and WASSCE results, you intentionally keep the results on your website and then you make money with it before you later bring the results to the schools. Previously, you used to release the results slips for the students to use it for their admission to SHS before you finally release their certificates. But today you (GES) has teamed up with WAEC to rob and cheat the parents. Even as I speak, some of the children have not been able to access their results because of some inconsistencies in their dates of birth. Over 500,000 students sat for this year's BECE. And we're told about 490,000 have passed for placement into SHS and other second cycle schools. It means each one of them will have to check his or her results and placement. Checking of results is GHC 15.00. Now 15*490 000= GHC 7,350,000 Checking of placement also cost GHC 15.*490,000=7,350,000. So in effect each child pays GHC 30 for the checking of results and placement. So if all the 490,000 students who have passed should go through the same process then the company which has been created by WAEC and GES which has done basically nothing is getting GHC 14,700,000. Don't forget that nobody knows who has passed and who has failed. One has to check the results before he/she gets to know. So in effect almost all the candidates who sat for the exams will check their results and placements. This is something that nobody has thoughtfully analysed this. It's a serious matter of concern so let nobody play with or try to water down this gargantuan corrupt practice. This is a typical example of what is termed as CREATE LOOT AND SHARE. 🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂ *LET'S COME TOGETHER AND FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION* *#Proph Wages* Concerned Citizen
This free SHS is all about the students leaving the teachers behind. Teachers instructional hours have increased and nothing is being said about teachers salary?