Education

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Daniel Fenyi, has dismissed suggestions of systemic failure in this year’s school placement exercise, explaining that the majority of concerns raised at resolution centres stemmed from individual subjective preferences rather than actual flaws within the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS). Speaking […]

ELS; MBN360 EDUCATION Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IES), Dr Peter Anti Partey Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IES), Dr Peter Anti Partey, has identified communication gaps and the historical over-concentration of resources on a small number of schools as fundamental drivers of Ghana’s recurring school placement crisis, calling […]

ELS; MBN360 EDUCATION Executive Director of Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has rejected calls to scrap the categorisation system in senior high schools, arguing that removing the system without improving infrastructure would not resolve placement challenges. Mr Asare explained that some Category C schools struggle to attract students because of inadequate infrastructure, teaching resources and other […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION There’s visible frustration at the GNAT Hall in Accra as the resolution of challenges with the CSSPS enters its third day, with anxious parents and candidates continuing to throng the Greater Accra Placement Resolution Centre in search of solutions to their placement challenges. Some frustrated parents spent the night at the facility […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum Aformer Education Minister, Honourable Yaw Osei Adutwum has proposed a transcript system that could help reduce the large number of students who fail core subjects in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Honourable Adutwum, who is also the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, explained […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Former Education Minister, Honourable Yaw Osei Adutwum says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) introduced the self-placement system to help students find schools when their preferred choices did not match available vacancies. Honourable Adutwum, who is also the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, noted that the system was designed to prevent students from being automatically […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Team member, Kwasi Kwarteng New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Team member, Kwasi Kwarteng, has argued that abolishing the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy would not automatically guarantee increased funding for basic education, pushing back against suggestions that scrapping the programme would resolve financing challenges facing […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Member of Parliament for Offinso North, Honourable Fred Kyei Asamoah, has urged the government to treat educational policy as a long-term national priority instead of subjecting it to frequent political changes. The Education Committee Member argued that reforms in the sector require patience because their full effects often take several years to become evident. […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION NPP Flag The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the government to secure actual secondary school placements for the 54,985 BECE candidates who were initially left without school assignments. The party argued that allowing 53,887 affected candidates to return to the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) portal for self-placement does not resolve the […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Some parents whose children are yet to secure placement into Senior High Schools (SHSs) are appealing to the Ghana Education Service (GES), the Ministry of Education and President John Dramani Mahama to urgently intervene in the ongoing placement challenges. The frustration among affected parents reached a boiling point at the GNAT Hall […]