Madam Afrah Sika Mensah
The Education Ministry has cautioned all parents/guardians not to pay money at the solution centres during the ongoing Computerized School Placement System (CSSPS) across the country.
This, according to the ministry, would ensure that no parent or guardian is burdened with financial issues while going through the solution process for their children to be placed at the school of their choice.
Madam Afrah Sika Mensah, Deputy National Coordinator of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) programme, who announced this to the media in Accra on Tuesday, also urged parents to desist from engaging the services of people hovering around the centres (Goro boys).
She explained that parents who require interventions should engage only designated officials who have been tagged at the centres to help them resolve their issues.
The Deputy National Coordinator described the high turnout at the centres during the first two days of the exercise as very good since it was an indication of parents showing interest in the CSSPS exercise.
Madam Mensah also reminded parents/guardians to desist from leaving their children alone to go to the solution centres since that would not be helpful. Parents, when they go with their children to the centres, would be able to ask critical questions, she pointed out.
She mentioned change of school, no placement at all, re-entry and change of residential status as among the issues brought to the various centres across the country.
The Education Ministry recently announced the commencement of the CSSPS to give the opportunity to candidates who could not be placed in their chosen schools to do self-placement.
Again, the ongoing exercise would create an opportunity for parents to make changes such as wrong placement to schools as in the case of boys placed in girls’ schools and vice versa.
A total of 447,698 candidates have been automatically placed in Senior High Schools (SHSs) as well as Technical Institutions (TIs) across the country.
The figure represents 80.93 per cent of all qualified candidates who sat the examination this year, while the remaining candidates are to do self-placement.