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31st October, 2011
GES Completes Pupils Placement Programme
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed the placement of all successful Basic School candidates in Senior High schools and has asked all schools to begin admitting first year students from Wednesday, October 26.
This followed the placement of 176,288 successful candidates, including the 30 percent catchment area quota under the 2011 Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS) for 2011.
Subsequently, all qualified candidates are advised to print out their admission letters and raw scores via the internet after purchasing a GES Scratch card at GH¢4.00.
The Deputy Director-General, Quality and Access, Charles Aheto-Tsegah, made this known at a media briefing on Friday.
He gave the breakdown of the candidates as 171,924 for current year candidates, 4,131 for re-entry candidates and 233 for foreign candidates.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah said academic work would begin on Monday, October 31.
The Deputy Director-General explained that the candidates after printing their letters, were not required to go to their former schools for their certificates before starting the admission process, adding that “the placement list has already been sent to the Senior High Schools and the technical institutions.
He warned headteachers who had started collecting various sums of money from the candidates before issuing them their certificates to desist from such practices saying “anyone caught would not be spared.”
He said qualified candidates could know their school place by texting their Index numbers to plus 08 for 2008 candidates, plus 09, for 2009 candidates plus 10 for 2010 candidates and plus 11 for 2011 candidates to all networks, except Tigo.
Mr Aheto Tsegah expressed regret at the huge anxiety created by the delay in the release of the placement results which, he explained, was mainly due to the introduction of the 30 per cent catchment area allocation, as special forms had to be designed and sent out to interested candidates.
He stated that 19,500 candidates who were able to beat the deadline for submission of the forms had been placed, while those from the regions were still being received by the CSSPS Secretariat.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah stated that the secretariat also had to wait for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to complete investigations of about 3,000 candidates who had their results withheld due to examination malpractices before finalising the placement exercise.
“We did not want to repeat last year’s mistakes where in our quest to release the results on time, we overlooked the results withheld by WAEC only to be forced to reverse the placement,” he added.
The Deputy-Director-General expressed disappointment that a lot of candidates who chose so-called big schools had to face stiff competition, thus denying them the opportunity to get admission.
He said Wesley Girls High School alone had 12,400 applicants, while in actual sense the school could admit only 300 candidates, Holy Child 8,700 and Prempreh College, 5,250.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah enumerated some other challenges faced by the secretariat as parents requesting change of school for day students residing far away from their schools, false declaration of result slips, special request for same sex twins, among others.
He, therefore, advised parents to take personal interest in the selection of schools for their wards to avoid the current frustration associated with students’ selecting the schools for themselves only to realise they had made a wrong choice.
He gave the Website address as www.myjhsresults.net which candidates can use to print out their results.
This followed the placement of 176,288 successful candidates, including the 30 percent catchment area quota under the 2011 Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS) for 2011.
Subsequently, all qualified candidates are advised to print out their admission letters and raw scores via the internet after purchasing a GES Scratch card at GH¢4.00.
The Deputy Director-General, Quality and Access, Charles Aheto-Tsegah, made this known at a media briefing on Friday.
He gave the breakdown of the candidates as 171,924 for current year candidates, 4,131 for re-entry candidates and 233 for foreign candidates.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah said academic work would begin on Monday, October 31.
The Deputy Director-General explained that the candidates after printing their letters, were not required to go to their former schools for their certificates before starting the admission process, adding that “the placement list has already been sent to the Senior High Schools and the technical institutions.
He warned headteachers who had started collecting various sums of money from the candidates before issuing them their certificates to desist from such practices saying “anyone caught would not be spared.”
He said qualified candidates could know their school place by texting their Index numbers to plus 08 for 2008 candidates, plus 09, for 2009 candidates plus 10 for 2010 candidates and plus 11 for 2011 candidates to all networks, except Tigo.
Mr Aheto Tsegah expressed regret at the huge anxiety created by the delay in the release of the placement results which, he explained, was mainly due to the introduction of the 30 per cent catchment area allocation, as special forms had to be designed and sent out to interested candidates.
He stated that 19,500 candidates who were able to beat the deadline for submission of the forms had been placed, while those from the regions were still being received by the CSSPS Secretariat.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah stated that the secretariat also had to wait for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to complete investigations of about 3,000 candidates who had their results withheld due to examination malpractices before finalising the placement exercise.
“We did not want to repeat last year’s mistakes where in our quest to release the results on time, we overlooked the results withheld by WAEC only to be forced to reverse the placement,” he added.
The Deputy-Director-General expressed disappointment that a lot of candidates who chose so-called big schools had to face stiff competition, thus denying them the opportunity to get admission.
He said Wesley Girls High School alone had 12,400 applicants, while in actual sense the school could admit only 300 candidates, Holy Child 8,700 and Prempreh College, 5,250.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah enumerated some other challenges faced by the secretariat as parents requesting change of school for day students residing far away from their schools, false declaration of result slips, special request for same sex twins, among others.
He, therefore, advised parents to take personal interest in the selection of schools for their wards to avoid the current frustration associated with students’ selecting the schools for themselves only to realise they had made a wrong choice.
He gave the Website address as www.myjhsresults.net which candidates can use to print out their results.
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